Blowin’ in the wind

May 25th, 2006 | by Brian |

On Saturday I went to the credit union on the north-west corner of 55th and Arapahoe to deposit a couple of paychecks. Only the drive-in tellers were open, and I hadn’t endorsed the checks, so I started to do so on a ledge near the tellers. Soon after a gust of wind came along and, yes, took one of the checks with it. I scanned the area to the west, where the wind was blowing, had no luck, and realized that my search space was growing rapidly with every second. Since I’m currently reading (Nobel-prize-winning physicist - how do people not know this?) Richard Feymnan’s What Do You Care What Other People Think?, I found some deposit slips in the bushes and placed them on the ledge to see how they would respond to the wind. To my surprise, they blew around the wall and east. So I searched in the drive-in area, certainly to the amusement of the tellers working that shift, to whom I’d mentioned my predicament. After a few minutes I gave up and was resigned to call to have the check reissued, and did not expect much of a problem with that. The next day, to my delight, I received an e-mail from the Flatirons Golf Club, at 57th and Arapahoe (south side) [map] saying that someone had found a check with my name on it and, if it were mine, I could pick it up at the Pro Shop. I go to pick it up, and it turns out a guy working there Googled my name and found my e-mail address from one of my web pages. Nice.