Fill out a cheque, Joe Blogs

Today I learned how to fill out a cheque. It's not write a check, it's fill out a cheque. I realised I need to fill out a cheque for the house this coming Friday and I had a moment of "do I have checks? Are they different?". Sure enough, the bank had sent cheques, and of course they look a bit different. At first glance they looked so different that I wasn't even sure they were checks. So I hit YouTube and watched how to fill out a cheque. I felt like a young teenager and I'll prob feel that way again soon when I have to go for my UK drivers licence.

You basically fill it out the same way, you just put stuff in different places. You write "only" after the written words (plus the straight lines) so that people don't change the amount. I've always wondered if that ever really happens, do people really change the amount on people's checks, or can I start using that as an old tale that happened about once ever in history?

You know how we say "john doe" for examples of an average person? It's not John Doe here, it's "Joe Blogs". It might be "Joe Boggs" and I'm not picking up the accent correctly :) if it is Joe blogs, I'm quite impressed because I bet that name has been around for much longer than blogs as we know them today. And, I think John Doe is actually somewhat common as a name in the US, right? Sure, it should probably be John Johnson, but still, I wonder if Joe Blogs is common at all? :) for extended examples in the states we often use John Doe and Jane Doe, I wonder if it's Jane Blogs? And, in the defence industry, "Joe Engineer" is acceptable in many countries! (Which I appreciate because there are multiple engineers named Joe in my family lol)