👉 Write the amount in numbers
👉 Write the amount in words
👉 Write the date (or postdate if you're one of those assholes)
👉 Put lines through the excess blank sections
👉 Write a little love letter to the person you're buying from
👉 Fill out your medical details
👉 Provide a debit card at the same time for a guarantee
👉 Fill it out incorrectly in the small hope it won't get cashed
👉 Sign the damn thing!
For once these were created in the #USA which to this day does not have an actually functioning #WireTransfer system that comes even close to #SEPA in terms of cost-efficiency, speed, availability and ease-of-use:
People still get literal #cheques to cashout decades after #Germany phased out chequebooks and banned that even long before that.