What Not To Say To A Bank Teller

A recent article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the prevalence of bank robberies in the wintertime made me think not only of eerie parallels with my new book but also about an unexpectedly interesting encounter I had at a bank last year.



I had just moved to the Atlanta area and had finally gotten around to setting up a local bank account. I was sitting in the office of one of the bank managers, and in setting up the account I mentioned that I couldn't do direct-deposit paychecks, as ...