No. Credit started with the ’ grocery store cashier’ having small pad with your name on it. You were expected to pay it off on payday. The order pads waitresses used were very popular. The grocery store I worked in as a 12 year old bag boy and sweeper had a shoe box with the pads in alphabetical order. 70 years ago!
Straker UFO over 3 years ago
Peasants got credit cards?
BigDaveGlass over 3 years ago
That’s the problem, it’s not due, it’s to the discretion of the shopkeeper….
Skeptical Meg over 3 years ago
“But it’s not ‘give credit where payment is overdue’”.
Troglodyte over 3 years ago
What about “taking credit with no contribution”? Is there a pithy saying for that?
llong65 over 3 years ago
yeah, but your are past due on you credit.
sandpiper over 3 years ago
Nice try, though
comixbomix over 3 years ago
It ran headlong into “make payment where payment is due”.
billwog over 3 years ago
No. Credit started with the ’ grocery store cashier’ having small pad with your name on it. You were expected to pay it off on payday. The order pads waitresses used were very popular. The grocery store I worked in as a 12 year old bag boy and sweeper had a shoe box with the pads in alphabetical order. 70 years ago!
raybarb44 over 3 years ago
Not quite that meaning…..
Radish... over 3 years ago
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
JesseLouisMartinez over 3 years ago
How about paying your bill when it’s due
gammaguy over 3 years ago
That “ad” is “aged”.
brklnbern over 3 years ago
Sounds like a Biden redefinition.