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Originally Posted by motion

I haven't balanced mine in probably 25-30 years. I was in line at the grocery store today and this lady was friggin balancing her checkbook and writing a check. Instead of taking 15 seconds, it took her 5 minutes to do everything. I'm not in a hurry, so I don't care, but sheesh!!

I just assume that the banks triple-check the calculations so there's no need to do it yourself.

I think that's great assumption 99.99% of the time.

I haven't seen a mistake in many years. It seems the mistake that's most likely is not a math mistake, but a charge mistake.