Balancing Checkbook

"Checking Account"

Jim's beautiful, blonde wife was having trouble
mastering the fine points of balancing the
checking account.

"The bank returned the check you wrote to the
department store," he said.

"Good," she replied. "Now I can use it to buy
something else.

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"Balancing Checkbook"

My accountant father and my artist mother have
very different views on balancing a checkbook.

Mom usually kept the checkbook, but when Dad
retired, he took over all the financial duties. He
was really taken aback when he looked over the
checkbook and found only dollar amounts recorded.

It seems Mom hadn't wanted to deal with any more
math than she had to, so she'd eliminated the cents
from every check. She'd round up if the partial dollar
amounts were 50 cents or more and drop those
under 50 cents.

Dad feverishly went through stacks of canceled
checks and registers, trying to correct her method.

The difference in seven years of dollars only?

... Sixteen cents...
Received on Fri Apr 22 09:57:32 2005