The Bank Manager Refused to Cash My $40 Check Because of How I Looked, Then I Asked Him to Pull Up Account 0001

And now he says them every day. To farmers and cleaning ladies and young mothers and old widows in dead men’s hats.

And he means them the way George did.

That’s the thing about words. They mean whatever the person behind the glass decides they mean.

I’m glad I went to the bank in my gardening clothes that day.

It was the best mistake I ever made.