ATM

Does anyone else bank with Wells Fargo? I do. And they have this new thing at their ATM’s wherein you are no longer allowed to use envelopes when making your deposit. You simply insert your checks or cash right into the ATM. It’s weird. It feels weird.

You put the checks into the “In” slot and then a few seconds later the ATM tells you the amount of the check. This is weird. It can read handwriting?

Today at the ATM I looked over to the woman at the ATM next to me. She was perplexed. I said, “Do you suppose there are little people inside of here reading our checks?”

“All I want to do is use an envelope. I’m standing here inserting these checks one at a time, it’s taking forever.”

“I think you can insert them all at the same time.”

“I don’t trust this machine to do it that way.”

“I think there are midgets inside, and on the whole they can be trusted.”

“Weird look”

I printed out my receipt. It had a scan of the check I deposited printed right on the receipt.

“Look! The midgets can draw!”

“Unamused glare.”

“Alrighty then, good luck to ya.”

Technology sometimes advances a little too fast for our simple human brains...