Check washing

A few days ago I was writing a check to a guy I don’t know in exchange for some frozen meat to stock up my freezer.  When I told my wife that I had written the check, and it was to a guy I didn’t know she was very upset with me.  She asked me which pen I used to write the check; she was worried that the guy might wash the check and drain our account!  Well, I told her that I wasn’t sure which pen I used, but I thought it was the uni-ball vision elite.  I wasn’t sure if that was a pen that helped to prevent check washing.  So today I did a little bit of cruising around on the Internet and found that according to their website, that particular pen does help to prevent check washing.  And then I went online to see if the check had been cashed yet, and it had been – for the right amount of money.  Whew!  What a relief!  We would have been some upset if we had found we were duped!