Online banking is convenient, but adds steps when you want to disentangle yourself from your old checking account.
John Madden, the Devils' 29-year-old checking center, was not mentioned as a candidate for the league's top defensive forward award.
They'd cashed old checks.
That said, we might refuse to pay an old check, so you never know.
I had the bill and the old check for six cents Xeroxed and then I sat down to write a 17-page letter.
But in mid-March, as Devin Desir, a 13-year-old, checked the mail for letters from a half-dozen prep school admissions offices, he seemed positively calm.
The superintendent there gives me the old "check back in two weeks," which might be a kind no, but when you're not working you have to keep positive.
Here's another, more urbane, no less fantastic: a dinner table cloaked in old checked cloth, underneath a wide platter of pasta in red sauce flecked with basil, a bowl of crabs beside it.
Left wide open is the possibility that Bank of America would take a good whiff of, say, an eight-month-old check, consider it fresher than morning dew, then cash it.
The girl wore a thin old checked cotton shirt with pearl-colored snaps with the long sleeves down and always smelled very good and clean, like someone you could trust and care about even if you weren't in love.
