A question of "cash"?

[Smokenaces]

My wallet’s stuffed with more condoms than cash — three sad, limp singles and enough latex to personally sponsor a CDC poster.

I hit up the gentlemen’s club for lunch like I’m closing deals… if those deals involved ham sandwiches, light beer, and eye contact so intense it qualifies as a spiritual awakening.

I pay for my food with a credit card — because nothing says “refined adult” like financing deli meat in a room that smells like vanilla body spray and broken dreams.

The singles? Oh, those are for the real heroes — the talented ladies who laugh at my dad jokes like I’m actually funny, and not just the only guy eating pastrami at a pole.

I like to think I’m helping them pay for college — or at least upgrade to the premium Netflix plan and maybe buy a textbook they’ll only use as a laptop stand.

Honestly, I’m not just having lunch. I’m investing in America’s future. One glitter-covered dollar at a time.

 

[LuckyDuck]

They charge businesses processing fees, ie they makes $$ when you use a card.

Some people have started passing that on to customers.

My dentist, local gas station. Its cheaper to use cash.

Your dentist accepts cash? Not even mad about that just surprised is all.

 

[LuckyDuck]

The problem I’m having with cash is:
-pizza place won’t accept a $50 bill on a $50 order.
-baseball stadium/concert venue will not accept any cash

My initial thought is the employees can’t be trusted.

That said I still carry some but what was once laughed at (wad of $1’s & $5’s) is now the norm…..because I employees can’t be trusted?

I hate the youth for so many reasons.

You pretty much hit the nail on the head for how my recent experiences go. For quite some time now businesses didn’t accept bills over $20 due to counterfeit concerns. But we have markers and fancy new $50’s & $100’s to combat counterfeiting and the businesses still have gone 100% cashless.

 

[Defiantly_Not_Bender]

You pretty much hit the nail on the head for how my recent experiences go. For quite some time now businesses didn’t accept bills over $20 due to counterfeit concerns. But we have markers and fancy new $50’s & $100’s to combat counterfeiting and the businesses still have gone 100% cashless.

How much is a dildo? $50? Do they spend like cash?

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

I’m a cash kind of guy, and at a store today, I was told that they didn’t take cash, card only. I didn’t mind paying with a card, but what the heck is up with not taking cash?

Depending the store, could be what I ran into in Miami Fl back in 1978. Went to pay for a cup of coffee (29cents) gave her a dollar and she said we don't take cash. I said but I have ID, she laughed and said really we do not take cash. Then she said once they did that it stopped all the armed robbery's, in their tracks. Needless to say I left it on the counter and walked out. I'm seeing that same thing more & more in large shit holes, I have to still frequent.

 

[Nik H]

I’m a cash kind of guy, and at a store today, I was told that they didn’t take cash, card only. I didn’t mind paying with a card, but what the heck is up with not taking cash?

Requires the ability to make change properly and not steal the cash from the till

 

[GreenGO Juan]

Your dentist accepts cash? Not even mad about that just surprised is all.

Yep, on my mind as I just had a crown put on today over a root canal I had back in February.

 

[LuckyDuck]

Yep, on my mind as I just had a crown put on today over a root canal I had back in February.

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I'm genuinely impressed. Wasn't challenging you by any means it's just that my experience of dental billing (and I've seen a lot of it lately) is some sort of pseudo science where even having "good" dental insurance is it's own twilight zone even in the insurance world.


As I was saying about places becoming "cashless" I literally cannot even buy something as basic as a Hershey chocolate bar without a credit card for the past few years now without a credit card because Hershey went "cashless". I go to a Bears game (local AHL team from Hershey) and can't buy a soda without a credit card.

It's just wild to me... (1) that I've only had $6 in my wallet for god only knows how long (2) the number of places refusing to accept cash and (3) how subtle the transition has been in the past 15 years or so.

 

[GreenGO Juan]

I'm genuinely impressed. Wasn't challenging you by any means it's just that my experience of dental billing (and I've seen a lot of it lately) is some sort of pseudo science where even having "good" dental insurance is it's own twilight zone even in the insurance world.


As I was saying about places becoming "cashless" I literally cannot even buy something as basic as a Hershey chocolate bar without a credit card for the past few years now without a credit card because Hershey went "cashless". I go to a Bears game (local AHL team from Hershey) and can't buy a soda without a credit card.

It's just wild to me... (1) that I've only had $6 in my wallet for god only knows how long (2) the number of places refusing to accept cash and (3) how subtle the transition has been in the past 15 years or so.

I personally do not attend professional sporting events. So no experience there, cloest I have attended is college football games and they were still cash based.

I used to attend large music festivals regularly and the normal there was buying tickets like at a fair. End of the event vendors would turn their ticket in to the promoters and get their $. That would keep employees from stealing cash as the ticket only hold value at the events.

I personally prefer to pay in physical currency. I see the move to ween the population off of it and when they do… Its not hard to control some one. Similar to financial sanctions we put on countries, or like Canada did to the truck protests against covid. The move off gold was already bad enough. Before my time.

Yes there are benefits to digital currency. But I feel its also a carrot on a stick. Plus the card fees are like another tax. No thanks.

 

[GUN NUT in IA]

Credit cards only at our HIGH SCHOOL sports events - admission and concession stand.

 

[zeroz]

This must speak volumes to the places I go (don't go). Ive never been turned down from using cash. Literally says on it it legal tender for all debts public and private.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

This must speak volumes to the places I go (don't go). Ive never been turned down from using cash. Literally says on it it legal tender for all debts public and private.

While it does say that, all vendors have the right to refuse service to anyone. Course people have the right to tell those vendors to fuck off, as well as spreading the word about them.

 

[ironman56]

I keep all my side jobs paid in cash in the gun safe 1500-5000 at times ,but only keep 50-100 in my wallet for walking around money, all bills get a check in the mail or online auto deduct. Since I retired I no longer go to the bank much , every thing is direct deposit now which is nice , just go to the bank ATM for cash if I need it , I don't dip into my safe money for pocket cash that way it stays at a reasonable level . But I sure remember the days of living pay check to pay check in my younger days ,especially when I was in the Air Force and only got paid once every two weeks , thank God for chow halls and barracks.

 

[W54/XM-388]

Folks like to carry guns or knives around with them just in case they ever might need them.
Think of having a hundred or two dollars in your pocket and like at least a couple hundred or a thousand in cash at home the same way.

You might find a couple hundred can go a long way towards getting you out of a jam or problem from time to time.
Folks you might need to help you with something, might not always have a credit card processing machine with them.