Sunday,  October 14, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 89 • 2 of 26 •  Other Editions

Cashing in on a cashless society

• I am the kind of person that likes to do business with cash on the barrel

The Lighter Side
Rev. James L. Snyder

head. I do not like credit because it has a way of biting you in the end. When you have a credit card, there are fees to beat the band. I do have a credit card but I have it hidden so well that I have not been able to find it for seven weeks. I just do not like using it.
• The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage always warns me about the possibility that someone can steal my credit card. Ha ha, I say in defiance to her warning. I am never worried about that. If anybody can get money out of my account with my credit card, I would like to work with them and go 50-50 on it. Every time I need money, my credit card is empty. I think there is a conspiracy in this whole thing.
• Nothing is more embarrassing than going to a checkout counter to pay for goods that I intend to purchase and my credit card is denied. The reason I was using the credit card at the time was I did not have any cash in my pocket. Now, I have no cash in my pocket and my credit card is just grinning at me refusing to cough up the money needed for purchasing these goods.
• I hate my credit card. And it is reciprocal. My credit card hates me and tries its level best to embarrass me every chance it gets.
• When I do business, I want to know that I have done business. Nothing is more

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