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<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icqrx0OimSs&feature=player_embedded#%21">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icqrx0OimSs&feature=player_embedded#!</a><br><br><br> I finally got around to moving mine. My account got grandathered over the<br>last 40 years or so as a small S&L got gobbled by American Savings which got<br>gobbled by Great Western Savings, which got gobbled by Washington Mutual,<br>which got gobbled by Chase. Something like that.<br><br> I got tired of all the junk mail from Chase and all the lotto nonsense (like they<br>were ever really going to pay for my next check!). The last straw was when<br>I stopped in to order some checks. I was on my way--no kidding!--to see <br>Charles Ferguson speak at Stanford, and I thought I could just fill out a form.<br>Nope, their client service associate sat me down for 45 minutes during which<br>time she tried to sell me a lot of stuff I didn't want, opened a second checking <br>account for me (taking away the privileges of my earlier money-market-with <br>checking, generating fees, generating a second minimum-balance requirement, <br>and no doubt making a fat commission for herself). I was thus late for <br>Ferguson, and to add insult to injury, when Gerry saw me carrying my shiny <br>new cardboard folder from Chase he looked at me like I'd come in Condoleezza<br>Rice.<br><br> I just got my new checks from the credit union. Wow, they look just like<br>real checks! So long, Too-big Fail!<br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </div></body>
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