A Man Walks into a Bank
It amazes me everytime, that in the US day-to-day banking still consists mostly of writing, sending and cashing cheques.<p>In germany (I dont know about the rest of Europe, but I guess the situation is similar), cheques are virtually non existent. You can still get and cash them, but you will get weird looks from the person behind the bank counter, most of the time there will be a hefty fee associated with it(I once cashed a cheque from an US-bases affiliate program and my bank charged me a ridiculous amount for the process).