The Bank Manager Refused to Cash My $40 Check Because of How I Looked, Then I Asked Him to Pull Up Account 0001

Account Number 0001
I went to the bank in my gardening clothes.

That was my first mistake, I suppose.

It was a Tuesday in June. Hot already by ten in the morning. The kind of hot that comes up out of the ground in Millbrook and sits on your shoulders like a wet towel.