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do with vegetables. Vegetables are all right in their place, but their place is not on my lunch plate, especially when my wife is not present.
• I had a scrumptious lunch and then top it off with a nice slice of apple pie à la mode. Life does not get any better than this. I sat back in my chair, rubbed my stomach and felt good about the world around me. I was even beginning to think that there might not be so much wrong with malls after all.
• Finally, it was time to take my ticket up to the cashier and pay for my lunch. I was in for a very rude awakening. I presented my ticket to the cashier and pulled out of my wallet enough cash to cover the ticket.
• "I'm sorry, sir," the woman behind the cashier said. "We don't accept cash in this restaurant."
• I was in a good mood and laughed as though I was the vice President of the United States. "That's a good one," I complimented her.
• "Sir, we don't take cash here," she insisted. "We are not set up for cash; all we take are credit cards."
• About this time, I realized she was not joking. I found myself in the proverbial pickle with only cash on my person and no credit card.
• "But all I have is cash."
• Finally, the manager of the restaurant was called to the front, I was able to settle my ticket with him, giving him cash and he used his credit card to pay the ticket.
• What is this world coming to when you cannot use cash anymore?
• What is better than cash in my thinking is God's gift. "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23 KJV).
• Unlike cash, God's gift to me will never go out of style.