People pay $20 or more in some cases for bouncing a check.

"In 14 years I had never even bounced a check."

Boy, remind me never to bounce a check to this guy.

The average charge to a customer for bouncing a check in 1986 was $16.37.

I still bounce a check every now and then.

Haven't bounced a check in at least a month," I said.

I've never bounced a check, never slapped China around.

"I've got customers with a live-in housekeeper, the 2 3/4 children in private school, the three cars, and they bounce a check for $98."

And then there is bouncing a check off the Internal Revenue Service.

And a taxpayer who bounced a check last year would have been well advised not to bounce one this year.

And that evolved out of Ricky Ricardo's anger over his wife's having bounced a check.

Multicultural noted that Air America bounced a check and claimed they were owed in excess of $1 million.

By processing checks faster while placing holds on deposits, banks are increasing the chances of bouncing a check.

Since he's inches from bouncing a check, Dresden puts the gruffs on hold and accepts the consulting job.

A short-term deferred deposit loan, the industry's preferred term, helps a worker through an emergency and is cheaper than bouncing a check.

Bouncing a check?

Now, few customers even deal with a bank teller, let alone know their names, so if you bounce a check, a computer is going to charge you.

As innocuous an offense as bouncing a check can land a businessman in jail and render him ineligible for government assistance.

That is what happened to Juang Uen Ean, who spent six months in jail for bouncing a check.

And rather than bounce a check, he said, many banks "make money on the back end by not bouncing your check - but charging you a fee."

He added that he had always covered the overdraft as soon as informed of it and that he never bounced a check.

Even if I bounced a check, all Betty English would say was, "Fred, did you have trouble with arithmetic when you were a kid?"

"I bounced a check for my last 89 cents before my hometown folks sent some money," said Warner, who is from Mount Baldy, Calif.

By Mr. Bennett's account, the freeze order was issued without warning, and one of the two defendants bounced a check to the man who cuts his grass.

He had made a previous visit to Phoenix, where he inadvertently bounced a check after well-meaning Vera cashed it, infuriating Mel.