I need a cash cow
Jul. 8th, 2004 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI remember now why the bus pass (which is, apparently, gone forever) was a good idea... The fare is $2 each way and the bus driver does not give change. So I gotta come up with $2 in exact change twice a day - every day.
See, the problem is... I'm your classic case of cashless. I rarely use it. I don't even use checks. I pay all my bills online - most automagically. I charge everything else. At work, you can fund an account for lunch. You keep money in your account and then you just run your card key over the little reader and wham... your lunch is bought.
I generally keep about $30 in my wallet but it's generally the exact same $30 I put in there months ago. And, like right now, it's a 20 and a 10. Not good bus fodder.
I do all my banking with a credit union. They are in Portland. They have branches here but none even remotely convenient. Where in the hell am I going to get a load of small (not even necessarily unmarked) bills???? Geesh.
See, the problem is... I'm your classic case of cashless. I rarely use it. I don't even use checks. I pay all my bills online - most automagically. I charge everything else. At work, you can fund an account for lunch. You keep money in your account and then you just run your card key over the little reader and wham... your lunch is bought.
I generally keep about $30 in my wallet but it's generally the exact same $30 I put in there months ago. And, like right now, it's a 20 and a 10. Not good bus fodder.
I do all my banking with a credit union. They are in Portland. They have branches here but none even remotely convenient. Where in the hell am I going to get a load of small (not even necessarily unmarked) bills???? Geesh.
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Date: 2004-07-08 01:15 pm (UTC)(this is off topic, but I just finished watching "Love Actually" on a Netflix DVD...and thought of You immediately.
;) Hugh Grant
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Date: 2004-07-08 01:17 pm (UTC)(this is off topic, but I just finished watching "Love Actually" on a Netflix DVD...and thought of You immediately)
;) Hugh Grant
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Date: 2004-07-08 02:04 pm (UTC)You might even be able to buy the tokens online and have them shipped to you. :)
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Date: 2004-07-08 03:18 pm (UTC)Banks around here usually won't even tell you the time of day unless you are a customer. But, I thought, heck, if LMoose says to try it... So I did. I went to the ATM got $50. Then I waltzed into Wells Fargo and charmed this little boy teller out of 50 $1 bills! (We did the don't ask don't tell thing on the whole customer bit.)
And to round off the adventure, I stopped into the Metro place and discovered they sell books of $2 never-expiring tickets!
The Moose led me to the cash cow... I'm having an animal day!
Thank you!!!
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Date: 2004-07-09 12:20 pm (UTC)Very cool. Just drive through and it deducts the toll automatically.
It is a 50% savings, but also costs $2 so I thought of you You need a transponder for buses, too!! Just fill it up online. Why don't they have them for busses yet? Huh? I want to know.
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