I'm an idiot!

Ok, our rent check is due today. I wrote out the check last night and this morning, I drove the girls to school. I forgot to stop by the office and drop it off on my way home. I noticed the check when I got home. No problem. I'll just walk up and drop it off.

Well, since I was wearing my flip flops, I decided I would do it later on and I am pretty sure I laid the check face down in the van for when I went back out today. So I get in the van later and remember I need to drop off the check. I reach for the check and.....IT'S NOT THERE!!!! My middle daughter had just gone outside to get something from the van, and the doors were locked when she went out. (That's not to say that they were unlocked and someone reached in grabbed the check and then locked the doors). I thought I locked the doors when I went inside, but I can't be 100% sure. I tore the van apart looking for that flippin' check.

I looked under all the seats. In the glove box, in the pockets on the back of the seats, in books and magazines, everywhere. I even looked in the house in case I had actually taken the check in with me, but I don't think I did.

I don't know what to do. We just paid a ton of bills and have a bunch of pending transactions. I don't really want to have to close that account and open a new one. I don't want to pay $30 to stop payment on the check. I know if I do that, I'll probably end up finding the check. I don't think that if it was stolen, that they would be able to cash that particular check, but they would have our account number.

I did call the bank and they put an alert on the accout so that if anyone goes through a teller to try to take money out of our account, they will be warned to be extra cautious since there is a possible stolen check. Grr!! I'm just afraid that if it was stolen and someone is able to use our account number to pay for something, that we will be out the money!

What would you do? Regardless of putting a stop payment on the check, our account number could still be out there somewhere.