“Oh, yeah. It was very embarrassing. She gave me the check to give it to the company who supplied the uniforms. Two days later—just this morning, in fact—the bank called and told us it bounced!”
“Oh, my god. How embarrassing.”
“Right? She said she was certain the account had more than enough money in it to cover the expense. I mean, the bill came to just a little over eight hundred dollars, and she said the account had over two thousand in it, last she knew.” She leaned closer again while scanning our surroundings and lowered her voice so low I almost couldn"t hear her. “Carol said something fishy was definitely going on because when she called the bank to check on that account, and a few others, the bank"s totals and hers didn"t agree. Not anywhere near what she"d had. They were far low
