Never used a cheque in my entire life. Had couple of blanks when opened an account with BofA about 15 years ago, but didn't get the idea. For me cheques are som

Never used a cheque in my entire life. Had couple of blanks when opened an account with BofA about 15 years ago, but didn't get the idea. For me cheques are something from Theodore Dreiser novels. I heard from friends in Israel that there's a fancy custom of writing 12 cheques to landlord when one rents an apartment dated for every month of the rent. This way you never see your landlord for the entire year, which is neat, can't argue with that.