Marc Ecko - Chapt 5 EXCERPT - WHAT YOU SAY: HANDMADE HIGH FINANCE: Buying Time by Any Means Necessary (pg 121) lyrics

You know how when you write a check, there's that digital bar code at the bottom? If you lick your thumb and smudge that bar code, the check has to be processed manually, which buys you another thirty days before the banks cash it. This way, the banks are unable to process the check automatically, and they have to reprocess it in the old-fashioned way. By hand. So we smudged every check before we sent it out. Wet as a Slurpee. Not bragging. Jus' sayin'. This is how desperate we were