re: #24 Floral Giraffe

Time for a new bank.

I think so. I should look at credit unions. I actually liked WAMU, but they got eaten.

I hated BofA when I was there. I hated Wells Fargo. I even hated Bank of the Orient—I should have know we were going to have trouble when they found someone who’d been kiting checks with my (extremely common) last name, and a variant of my first name. In Lodi. While I was signing up.

“Is this you?” the woman asked.

“No.” I said.

That wasn’t good enough so I added things like “I’ve never been to Lodi. Do the Social Security numbers match? No? Good. That is not my name. Yes, it’s the same last name. There are literally two million of us worldwide. I am not this person. I PROMISE I am not this person.”

Eventually, they let me sign up.