Episode 231
The Great Check Mystery Unraveled! đź’¸
So, check this out! We’re diving into the wild world of checks and why a teenager thought he was duped when he opened his envelope expecting cash and found... a piece of paper with $200 written on it. Yup, his mom had to break it to him, "Son, that's a check!" Can you believe it? It’s like watching a kid discover a VHS tape! We’re all feeling a bit ancient as we reminisce about how checks used to be the norm, but now they’re just relics from the past. And honestly, if someone hands you a check today, your first thought is probably, “Is this a prank or a potential identity theft?” Join me as we laugh through this generational gap and imagine what the future holds—like glowing cubes for paying bills! Buckle up, it’s gonna be a fun ride!
Takeaways:
- A teenager found a check and thought it was just a piece of paper—classic!
- Checks are so ancient now, like cavemen trading with rocks and doodles, right?
- Imagine trying to explain checks to future kids—they’ll think we were living in the Stone Age!
- We’re all becoming tech-noobs, just wait until we can’t even log into our own gadgets!
- This whole check fiasco went viral, proving we’re all a bit clueless about money these days.
- In 20 years, teenagers will have a laugh watching us struggle with 'ancient' tech like TVs!
Transcript
It's haystack.
Speaker A:And a teenager was expecting to get paid $200.
Speaker A:And this teenager opens an envelope and is flabbergasted, confused about what is inside.
Speaker A:Instead of a couple of hundred bucks in cash, the teenager finds a piece of paper, and it's got $200 written on it.
Speaker A:And so he immediately texts his mom to say something's wrong.
Speaker A:He said there was no money, just papers that said my amount.
Speaker A:And then his mom realized, that's a check, son.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's where we are now as a society.
Speaker A:Children look at checks.
Speaker A:I shouldn't say children.
Speaker A:I mean, this guy's like, 16.
Speaker A:But teenagers look at checks the same way that archaeologists look at cave drawings.
Speaker A:Oh, this is fascinating.
Speaker A:This primitive culture appears to have traded using cursive.
Speaker A:The moment was shared online by his mom.
Speaker A:It went viral as people laughed about their own stories of younger generations being baffled.
Speaker A:And honestly, I kind of get it.
Speaker A:You think about it.
Speaker A:Checks make no sense anymore.
Speaker A:Even adults don't really trust checks.
Speaker A: someone hands you a check in: Speaker A:With arts and crafts.
Speaker A:Can you imagine for a moment, just try to imagine that you did not grow up with checks.
Speaker A:Think about it.
Speaker A:Checks are such a weird payment system.
Speaker A:You mean to tell me I can walk into a store and hand over a rectangle where I write a number and everyone just agrees that that money exists somewhere?
Speaker A:And, you know, checks are kind of oddly formal, too.
Speaker A:Especially back in the day when you would write checks, you had to write out the amount in words, and you had to write, you know, it had the line that said, pay to the order of.
Speaker A:Why does it just not say to pay to the order of.
Speaker A:Why does paying my water bill sound like I'm knighting somebody?
Speaker A:I mean, to be honest, we've.
Speaker A:We've all become a little bit technologically useless, and we will all become completely technologically useless eventually.
Speaker A:Right now, we're laughing about a teenager not recognizing what a check is.
Speaker A:In 20 years, some teenager is going to watch me trying to log into Netflix.
Speaker A:I'll be standing there yelling, why won't the TV listen to my password?
Speaker A:And the kid's just going to go, wow, you still use screens?
Speaker A:Then he's going to hand me some kind of glowing cube that pays taxes through telepathy or whatever.
Speaker A:Does whatever nightmare that the future becomes, it's going to be so scary.
