I signed up for a new bank account online.  This bank also has a physical presence, but I doubted I would need to take advantage of it since I haven't been inside a physical bank in a good five years.  However, I got a paper check in the mail, so I went to the physical location to deposit it.  After having a problem at the ATM and then *gulp* speaking to a human, I was told I wouldn't be able to deposit money at the physical location because I have an online-only account.  I sat there for a minute, thinking how stupid it was that one division of the bank didn't work with another division of the same bank, and I considered yelling at the poor bank teller to take my damn money, since (a) I already have an account and (b) banks typically like money.  But alas, one cannot reason with a person who follows orders from a computer screen.

I heard a story recently where a government employee patented something he was working on and set a price for licensing it.  Since he was working for the government while he came up with the patentable idea, the government would receive any proceeds from licensing.  Sure enough, somebody licensed it and asked the inventor where to send the money.  The inventor asked around and couldn't find any way for the government to accept the money, so he told the licensee to give the money to a local charity.  This is one of the many things that's wrong with our government:  It doesn't know how to accept money. 

Update:  I recently tried to give money to a charity.  I knew how much I wanted to give, and I knew what person I wanted the money to go to (a sponsor child).  I searched and searched through their website, and despite being a technologically-minded person, I couldn't figure it out.  Charities essentially exist to accept money from people.  Sure, charities also typically exist to help people.  But they help people by accepting money from other people.  Not being able to accept money, when accepting money is one of your core functions, is pathetic. #money