Hi Susan, > AND REPLIED " DO YOU KNOW YOU HAVE REALLY BAD HANDWRITING - > I CAN'T EVEN READ THIS AND THREW IT BACK AT ME! I WAS IN SHOCK > NEEDLESS TO SAY! Yeah, people can be so unthinking. I can't remember being so rude when I was younger (selective memory?) but I certainly thought I would live forever, and that anyone over thirty should be on a pension. <grin> I think it isn't rudeness often, just thoughtlessness. I have to use a walking stick sometimes, and people (some, anyway) can be so kind. But when I don't use it, it's every man and woman for themselves!" > THERE ARE SOME DAYS THAT NOTHING WORKS SO I HAVE EVEN > ASKED THE CLERK TO WRITE OUT THE CHECK AND I SIGN IT Hurrah! for auto-tellers, I say. I know they aren't the answer to everything, but at least they don't make value judgements ( just financial ones <grin>). Jim * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * James F. Slattery, J.P., M.A.C.S. JandA Computing Consultancy E-mail: [log in to unmask] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *