Attacktix Optimus Primal (pre-beast)

Pre-BW Optimus Primal from Crumplezone. (Edit: server's down at the moment, so clicking might not get you anything.)

For those who don't know, one of the BotCon06 toy exclusives was Crumplezone with a new head, repainted to be a pre-Beast Wars version of Optimus Primal. The "Sacrifice" power I left alone, as it seemed appropriate. Even as a young officer, Primal had the knack of inspiring loyalty.

Why even write the amount in words?

A few weeks ago, I got a letter from my bank (not the statement, I won't get that for a week or two yet) and found that for the first time in years, I'd been overdrawn on my checking account (I had the money in savings, so I only got a $5 fee to transfer the money, but it was still annoying), by about a hundred bucks. I figured I'd just been careless about keeping track of things.

Turns out that when I wrote a check for $1071 to my credit card company last month, they cashed it for $1671. Despite the fact I'd written "One thousand seventy-one" on the check (I have those carbon copy checks, so I was able to confirm this), and if they'd been unsure whether my 0 was a 6 all they had to do was look a centimeter down.

In fact, I suspect they never even looked at the check itself, just at the "payment amount" box on the bill, and the bank blithely let them cash the check for more than the written amount. Once I get the statement, I think I'll take it and my checkbook down to the bank to bring this to their attention (I'll wait at least that long, in case they discover it themselves in going over my processed checks).