Check and Mate

One of the unfortunate parts of moving is that you have to get new checks. I guess maybe you don't, since it's been years since I last heard the formerly ubiquitous question, "Is everything current?", but anyway, it seems that getting new checks is just one of those things that goes along with moving. When we got married, Shannon and I settled upon using her existing accounts with Washington Mutual. My name was added to her checks and we had checks proudly declaring:

Shannon Anderson Blockburger
Clark Blockburger

We needed new checks upon moving to St. George, so Shannon called them up to get our new address on them, and they very promptly (and freely) delivered our checks for:

Shannon Anderson Blockburger

Had I been disowned? Shannon called them up to correct them, and they made it seem like they were doing a great service to give her more checks for free, even though they're always free and they were the ones that decided to delete me from existence. She said, "I want my husbands name on the checks, too." "Charles?" "No, Clark" "Right." We were half expecting checks for Charles Blockburger (incidentally, that's my Grandfather's name) to show up, but instead we got (this is their actual formatting):

Shannon Anderson Blockburger
Clark Blockburger

Never before has my name looked to puny. Evidently they've been forced to admit I exist, but that doesn't mean they'll choose to elevate me above the status of a peasant any time soon.