When we re-ordered our business checks, it had a free drop-down menu to add a piece of pre-approved clip-art, and I literally could not resist

When the checks arrived, the chef was missing. I should have just given up, but I called them immediately. They spent 15 minutes trying to find out exactly what chef I had chosen. "Is it just a chef's hat?" No. "Is it the chef with pizza?" No. "Is the chef doing a-ok?" YES

Finally the new, correct chef checks arrived, but as a final punishment for my impulsive dumbness, we then had to shred 1,000 chef-less checks, in small batches, or else the shredder would overheat

There's an extremely valuable lesson here somewhere but I refuse to process it

Update: a while back I told Christa this story for a potential Panic podcast (!!) she's working on. (The pitch: a podcast on the periphery of Panic. Panic Sidequests.)

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SOMEHOW, a year later, there's more.

We just ran out of chef checks, so it was time for a re-order!

I decided to keep the awkward tradition alive…

…the checks just arrived, and, well,