# Bitch, I don't care about other payment options **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 4, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590 "2003-06-04T13:53:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/61 "2003-06-06T19:58:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fin\_man \* > \*\*Hey asshole - explain how your post behind mine in this thread - [How to use apostrophes, for fuck’s sake](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=185128) - fits into your “stop posting mind-bogglingly stupid OPs, and I’ll stop calling you on it” rule. \*\* Okay, a few things: [ul] [li]It wasn’t a “rule” it was an offer: stop acting like a moron, and I’ll stop calling you a moron.[/li] [li]That post was made about three weeks before my last post in this thread, predating my offer and therefore in no way invalidating it.[/li] [li]I didn’t call you a moron in that thread, I merely pointed out an error in your location that was entirely appropriate to the thread in which we were posting. And I did so as neutrally as possible. I merely pointed out the error, I didn’t attack you on it in any way.[/li] [li]Your post in that thread was neither an OP, not mind-bogglingly stupid (which is itself fairly mind-boggling). Since my post wasn’t calling you on a stupid OP, I don’t see how it in anyway applies to what I posted here earlier.[/li] I notice you’ve corrected your location as a result. Nice to know I make a difference.[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/62 "2003-06-06T21:25:04Z")
For years the postal system did not offer any type of credit purchases. Many people don’t pay enough attention to even realize that it exists. And some people, even after they had their money out would think, gee, if I give her my twenty I have to stop at the bank machine before I swing by Chik-fil-a. What a good idea, here’s my card. I think a little prozac would work wonders for you. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/63 "2003-06-07T10:41:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fin\_man \* > \*\*I’m about 5’9" tall, 225 pounds, short (but not too short) black hair, green eyes. But what do you sell? \*\* I notice that **jinwicked** never actually answered this question, so let me do it for you. She works at Victoria’s Secret. I am her manager. She is required to ask this of every poster whom she disagrees with, on any subject. It is all part of our national effort to find the next Victoria Model. Thank you for not taking offense to our duty. 😃 I actually have no idea where **jinwicked** works, and I am not her manager. But it’d be pretty funny if she _did_ work in a lingerie store, now wouldn’t it? I mean, wouldn’t you feel silly for even inquiring as to the merchandise? I’m not saying it’d be funny if _she_ worked there, I’m just saying…aw, fuckit. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/64 "2003-06-07T17:23:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fin\_man \* > **astro, it’s not the alternative payment options statement per se, but the whole asking before thinking crap.** I think that if I worked at the post office, I wouldn’t be doing a lot of thinking either. Except about how I wanted another job. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/65 "2003-06-08T01:28:22Z")
**Fin\_man** , I see your point. I go to the post office a 2 or 3 times a month and _every_ time I go, I get the payment option speech. I always use cash and have it in my hand by the time I get called to the counter. This has been going on for well over a year in my area - we know you take credit & debit cards by now. Put up little stickers on the doors like stores & restaurants do. The only people who may need to be told this are people with a seeing-eye dog and/or a red-tipped cane; otherwise we can all see the MasterCard/Visa sticker. Once a PO Employee actually told me that I could “save my cash for other purchases” - WTF? I’m trying to use my cash _now_ for a purchase. I understand that this is not the fault of the person waiting on me - they are doing their job as told, but it is still irritating. The Postal Service Management needs to stop forcing their employees to push credit/debit on their customers. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/66 "2003-06-08T03:05:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sapphire Wolf \* > \*\*I notice that **jinwicked** never actually answered this question, so let me do it for you. > \*\* I never answered it, because I don’t like talking about where I work too specifically. But since it means so much to him, I work in an art and framing store, part-time. It gets me out of the house and gives me some extra spending money. As for Victoria’s Secret, I’d be far more interested in modeling for them than being a register jockey in the mall. And I still think the rant was lame. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingwithChickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@SwimmingwithChickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingwithChickens)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/67 "2003-06-08T04:14:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jinwicked \* > \*\*I never answered it, because I don’t like talking about where I work too specifically. But since it means so much to him, I work in an art and framing store, part-time. It gets me out of the house and gives me some extra spending money. > > As for Victoria’s Secret, I’d be far more interested in modeling for them than being a register jockey in the mall. > > And I still think the rant was lame. \*\* I can’t believe this thread is still alive… In any event… I just had to comment, for some reason when Jin posted this, in combination with prior postings to this thread I got the mental image of her standing behind a counter selling stamps in lingerie being accosted by Fin\_Man for asking if he wants to use plastic(who from his physical attributes sounds like either a techhead or an EverQuest junkie)…hmmm, Jin in lingerie…? Pros? Cons? Regardless, worth further inquiry… Maybe I can arrange something Jin? I agree that speaking without thought is quite annoying (particularly in the post office- I once ordered a book of stamps and was asked, I kid you not, “Do you want a book of stamps with that?”) But as of this post there were 65 posts in response to the OP, half of which are counterposts. While the OP lacked the required 76 F-words, I think it was an ok rant and certainly something I’ve experienced before to some degree (thus raising my dander.) My recommendation is a winner take all Pit fest. In one corner Fin\_Man, the 225 pound green-eyed greaser. In the other Miller, who…\ the, uh, word conscious BS detector (weak I know…) These two posters have a jones for one another (I’ve seen it personally- Miller had a BBQ and Fin\_Man attended… net result two dead dogs, shot out of self defense). How 'bout it boys? Is there enough vitrol out there enough for you two to bust heads? Or has this little rivalry petered out? ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/68 "2003-06-08T05:27:42Z")
Please never use the phrase ‘petered out’ in the same post as mentioning me in lingerie, ever again. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/69 "2003-06-08T05:30:12Z")
boooooooooooiiiiiiinnnggg!!! ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingwithChickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@SwimmingwithChickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingwithChickens)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/70 "2003-06-09T12:41:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jinwicked \* > \*\*Please never use the phrase ‘petered out’ in the same post as mentioning me in lingerie, ever again. \*\* So noted… Question: How come you weren’t offended when I stated: “Jin in lingerie…? Pros? Cons? Regardless, worth further inquiry… Maybe I can arrange something Jin?” Surely I was asking for you to hand me my ass, was I not? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/71 "2003-06-09T16:32:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jinwicked \* > \*\*I never answered it, because I don’t like talking about where I work too specifically. But since it means so much to him, I work in an art and framing store, part-time. It gets me out of the house and gives me some extra spending money. > > As for Victoria’s Secret, I’d be far more interested in modeling for them than being a register jockey in the mall. > > And I still think the rant was lame. \*\* The mind tends to drift to Jin, in Victoria Secret garb, standing behind the counter and asking in an Andie Macdowell drawl: “So, would you like the self adhesive stamps, or the kind that have to be… {smile}liiicked…?{smile}” Switching from coffee to Cold Soda… ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590/72 "2003-06-10T07:45:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sat on Cookie \* > \*\*You know, there’s a real asshole around here who keeps leaving shit at our house. I tell him to get the fuck off our property, take his nasty-ass Weird-mobile and go the fuck back to wherever the fuck he’s fucking from. Apparently, this fucker things he has some fucking God-given right to leave his fucking shit at our fucking house because he’s our “Mailman”. I’m thinking of fucking becoming a fucking “Mailman” and going to his fucking house and fucking showing him how it fucking feels. \*\* Just like to register my vote for the above as greatest post of the last week. Good swearage just adds to the overall effect, particularly in the last sentence. Sir, I’m loving your work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-i-dont-care-about-other-payment-options/179590.md?page=3)