Having finally climbed the ziggurat Known as Bank of America Customer’s-Non-Service I was able to order checks.
Not the ones I wanted - oh no - Somehow ‘they’ wouldn’t let me. ‘They’ being a recorded voice That said I’m allowed four digits.
But my checks always need five You cannot order those online - You somehow have to phone it in. So, resigned to this, I called.
After clicking one through five Another robot lady’s voice Then told me I can order those By only going back on line.
I tried this several different ways. It always ended up the same. No matter which I tried they told me I had to use the other way.
At painful length I gave it up And ordered checks with just four numbers, Starting at quadruple seven So I can tell them from the rest.
Yesterday my order came I opened it and felt despair The checks were not the size I’m used to And useless to me in my work.
2 Back to the phone’s robotic voice To stumble on a lucky click And get Patricia on the line - A person who could help me out.
Telling her my tale of sorrow, She promised to replace the checks With ones in the requested size. Then as a bonus offered me
Checks that count up in five digits, Starting where my last ones stopped. Oh Hosannah in the Highest - Patricia’s now my Patron Saint.
Banking is a trial by fire Though they shout convenient All they’ve done is make it harder With the loss of human contact. ljm
An entry in BLT's Word-of-the-day challenge. I've banked at BofA for 42 years. My checks started with 101 and climbed steadily up to my last one at 30975. I have always been able to get continuing numbered checks until now. With all the automated mumbo-jumbo they have installed, you have to practically go to their office - if you can find one-and pound on their desk to get what you need.