Pluggers by Rick McKee for July 27, 2019

I walked out of a place because when I got to the counter, they didn’t.

To rephrase Kermit the frog a little, “it’s not easy [paying] green.”

In addition to stuff like THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, Douglas Adams also created the computer game Bureaucracy. In one part of the game you eat in a restaurant that only accepts cash, which you don’t have, so you have to sneak out and stiff them. That happened to Adams in real life once!

Historically, when a society has two forms of currency you’ll generally find the elite ends up largely using one and poorer people the other—like silver coins for the rich and copper coins for the poor. It’s the same today with plastic for the rich and cash for the poor!

In the long run cash will be more valuable when the internet goes down and you can’t pay your dinner bill with your app.

not in my world!!

Every US piece of paper money states “this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.” I wonder if anyone will ever put this to a legal test in a no cash place.

i ask the same question…..then watch them try to make change.

The nice thing about cash …. when it’s spent I quit spending :-) Thus no debt !

Next, we’ll see that Pluggers are the ones that still insist on using the actual workers at the registers to order vs. the big touchscreen kiosks I’m seeing in the fast food joints now… even here, in the smaller towns… :-)

I rarely use cash, but somehow my coin purse keeps filling up.

In future, they won’t be able to go back in time , in their time machine or thru hypnosis,(Somewhere in Time) because the won’t know what kind of currency they will need nor have access to it. (At least a 1979 penny won’t snap them back to reality, unless someone puts that penny in their pocket)

I have quite a few times had Cashiers that could not make change,I am waiting for the day that I set down some cash and get told"I am sorry Sir ,we don’t accept those kind of Coupons here." " And here’s your sign ! "

I always use cash but lately I have tended to cashless until the SS check arrives.

I have read that some convenience stores are actually going to a no-cash system, in order to prevent robberies. No sense robbing a place that doesn’t have any cash. Nothing like that around here, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually does come here!