I saw the joke below this morning and it made me recall how my late father-in-law had a habit of writing "For deposit only" on the Memo line of checks. I don't think he had any clue that he was accomplishing nothing by putting the notation in that location.

That memo line can have some amusing/revealing jewels in it. Have you seen any memorable ones?

Here was the joke that started me thinking about it:


"Hey you! Pull over!" shouted the traffic cop.
The lady complied, and the judge next day fined her
twenty-five dollars.
She went home in great anxiety lest her husband, who always
examined her checkbook, should learn of the incident. Then
inspiration struck and she marked the check stub,
"One pullover, $25."

It wasn't a memo line but one of my customers had a very memorable check.

There was a time when designer checks first started where you could send in a photo and have it printed on your check.

Our customer had a picture of he and his wife in an affectionate embrace and kissing printed on his checks.

He wrote one check a month on the account which was an alimony payment to his Ex wife.

The most memorable memo line from my teller days was "stool sample." The odd part about it was this was a personal check- written to another individual. The amount of the check also gave me the impression that the stool trade could be somewhat lucrative!

When I first started in public accounting part of my job was to post client bank statements to a general ledger. One set of statements included about 6 or 7 checks to the same bar on the same date each one progressively harder to read. The last one we were able to decipher on the memo line he had written "Mama ain't gonna be happy tonight"

Just a few months ago we came across a check with "Sexual Favors" written on the memo line. There are just some things I don't need to know...

Even innocent notations can be taken the wrong way...

Tongues were wagging on our teller line because of a memo line that read "One night stand".

I hated to take their fun away, but I felt it was important to point out that the payee was an antique furniture store!

My brother wrote a check to our parents want and put 'extortion money'.

I know this is an old topic, and not many people will be reading this, but I just had to add one here. In the memo line of one woman's check was "God's Love". Bet ya didn't know god's love came in the form of a check!

When I was in college I was the rush chairman for the fraternity and wrote a check for a little less than $200 to a local distributorship. I simply wrote "Beer" on the memo line.

My father, the Cashier of the small town bank, called me a few days later to say I had made "the girls in bookkeeping's" day. However, he also said I was not to fill in the memo line on any future checks. He didn't want to know...

We had a lady wanting to cash a check in the drive-thru lane. It was made out to her from her husband who was a local minister. On the memo line he had written "for services rendered". We got quite a laugh out of that one.

Ken, LOL LOL

We also came across a check with "Sexual Favors" written in the memo line - the reason we saw it was because it was on the NSF desk to be returned!

We saw a memo that read 'b--- j--' and it was from a man to another man for $500!
TMI