AutoZone rant

You might be thinking of the legend on US paper currency that says that it is "legal tender for all debts, public and private." It doesn't require the debtee to _accept_ the form of payment, only that it is legally acceptable. There's several test cases on this, mostly around people making "protest payments" of taxes in the form of barrels of pennies, and it has been held that a creditor can refuse accept such payment without voiding the debt.

In Billy Ray's example above I'm guessing that the bill-payment outposts refuse to handle cash because the other payment forms are much more difficult for common folk to steal and easier to account for. My credit union refuses to accept large quantities of loose coin for much the same reason -- rolled coin is easier to handle and there can be no claim on my part that they dropped some and it rolled under the counter before being credited to my account.

-- "I defer to your plainly more vivid memories of topless women with whips....r" R. H. Draney recalls AFU in the Good Old Days.

LMAO

Post that a few thousand more times and I'm gonna start worrying about you.

Ah, much like the Kalifornia chain of mutated grocery stores that now sell everything electronic and then some... aka the [I hate] Frys chain. Never ask a Frys clerk a question. Not even where you might find a particular type of merchandise. I honestly believe that the stores with electronic aids, as if you can find your ass with both hands, you are overqualified and Frys would not hire you.

Matt Macchiarolo proclaimed:

You could have taken the poor cat over to your neighborhood Schroedinger's Kitty Klinic....

Clint proclaimed:

One of life's little signals you might want to consider moving on is how the sheer weight of cremation and grave site offers tend to increase as you pass the mid 60's.

twaldron proclaimed:

electronically

When you write a check you're pulling from your account. You're basically complaining they wouldn't let you play the float of a day or two. Big deal.

Yes, I like the ones I put in my WK. I hear they've got a somewhat shorter lifespan though.

In Michigan we have Meijer, but the've been doing the "one stop shopping" thing for forty years or something like that....

Hang in there, man! ;)

tw

L> One of life's little signals you might want to consider moving on is how

"Lee Ayrton" wrote

I knew about the whole protest thing, and the merchant's right to refuse a payment in loose coin but something still nags at me about cash being something they have to take. I'm likely wrong. or very close to it.

Kate

Or you start getting junk mail from the AARP... but I've been getting mail from them since I was in my 30's, and the only think I'll ever send them is one of their postage paid reply envelopes, securely fastened to a brick.

Jeff DeWitt

twaldr> Hang in there, man! ;)

But then you just wouldn't know if kitty was still alive or not!

Jeff DeWitt

L>

Ahh good old Maijer, I remember when it was Meijer's Thrifty Acres!

Jeff DeWitt

Matt Macchiarolo wrote:

I think you answered your own question, now if it was a Studebaker...

Jeff DeWitt

billy ray wrote:

Could have gotten really interesting, after all he had your check. If the police got involved you could point out the the clerk took (accepted) your check so what is the problem? In the highly unlikely event you did get the matching bracelets a good lawyer would likely get you your own AutoZone store in exchange.

Jeff DeWitt

Oh, no, the AARP mail starts long before you turn 60.

Once other little moment is when you use the AARP card for senior discounts, they quit carding you.

As part of this growing old era, I'm seriously thinking about growing up one of these days. Which is kinda hard for a man whose life ambition is to go out at the age of 101 at the hands of an irate father.

Jeffrey DeWitt proclaimed:

Oh God Jeff! My husband started getting stuff from them in his 40s. After a couple of years he wrote "DECEASED" on one of their letters and sent it back to them. He didn't get anything again until he filed for SSI last year at 62.

THEN he wrot 'Until you stop mixing in politics, I want nothing to do with your anti-gun organization!" and sent it back in their envelope. Again, we are off their mailing list.

Kate

Agreed!