For a long time, the local transit authority had machines that dispensed Susan B Anthony dollars instead of bills. When I spent them anywhere but in another machine, I would get weird looks. A few times a cashier would refuse to take them until I explained what they were.
Guh, nothing grosser than sweaty boob money. I just don’t get the urge to stick your money, (or cell phone? 
) somewhere in your bra…yuck! They have so many options of where in the bra they can stick that money; I personally find under the armpit the worst. I haven’t gotten much sock money, but that is yucky too.
Pockets people, or a bag. Anything that doesn’t make the money sweaty, and involves a show of you fishing around in your underwear. 
I’ve encountered a number of vending machines that dispense dollar coins as change. Often (well, maybe 20% of the time) a Suebee will be dispensed along with the usual Sacagawea and president dollar coins. They certainly aren’t rare.
I haven’t really read any of your threads but I have noticed your name out and about the Board. Perhaps you’ve already explained this elsewhere but I’m curious, do you consider yourself a “degenerate gambler” because you actually play the slots? 
It’s a pretty special night when, after playing heavy slots at a casino you have any money left over for food and dad’s medicine. 
Yeah. I can understand if it is large sums of cash, like a wad of cash the size of a fist or a duffle bag full of cash.
But most of my cash transactions are less than $100. And only a few within the $101-$500 range. And like I mentioned earlier, seldomly those. My money goes in the bank and the only time it isn’t is when I’m not near the right bank or the right atm or too late at night.
My wife withdraws the monthly grocery money in cash for exactly this reason. Our spend for groceries went down considerably.
That’s unconscionable. The typical bank fee for a commercial bank account on an e-check or debit card transaction is under $1 - at least in my experience.
Diddy! That’s who I heard it from. His song “All about the Benjamins”. 1997?
Pops a cassette in the boombox
I put my hand on my hips, and thrust my chest twice to the left and twice to the right
I cross my arms, and lean to the left and then to the right
Finger gun!
It’s all about the Benjamins baby! It’s all about the Benjamins baby!
So, like I said from the last century.
Before I moved here, we researched the neighborhood. We researched the building. We did do research on the management company. Then, we found out we had done research on a different management company that had the same name. I am less than surprised that management is over charging on transaction fees.
I made a list of repairs that needed to be done after I first signed the lease. I sent the list to several people in management, several times. I had hoped the repairs would be made before I actually moved in two weeks or so after I signed the lease. The repairs have never been made.
While helping me move in, a friend smelled gas. I called the gas company and reported a leak. They quickly got a team out. They confirmed an internal leak in my oven. They shut off the gas to the oven and said it needed to be fixed or replaced.
I informed management of this and repeated the list of repairs. They said they would immediately replace the oven, but that they felt making the other repairs (mostly unsticking windows that won’t open, putting screens in the windows etc) would be too intrusive now that I was living in the apartment.
Rather than yelling, cursing, pointing out that they had at least two weeks to do the repairs before I moved in, and that replacing a oven was massively more intrusive than any of the repairs they said they did not want to do- I just asked ‘If the other repairs are too intrusive, could you fix the lock on my mail box? That can be done without ever setting foot in my apartment.’
They never responded. They never followed up about replacing the oven. I never ever use the oven or range. I don’t want them in my apartment if I can avoid it. So, I have not raised the issue.
Oh, and once it got cold I discovered that the hot water in the bathroom sink is usually extremely cold. Letting it run will sometimes get it to warm up. Sometimes it will become hot enough to scald. Mostly, it is just barely above freezing.
I think I have mentioned all this in various monthly mini rant and other Pit threads.
This apartment is, however, quite a few steps up from my last one.
And laundromats!
Well TITOs only distribute 1s/5s/20s and sometimes $100s. I don’t remember any of those kiosks EVER spitting out any 2s/10s/50s. I wonder why though, $2 bills the reason is obvious. But why not 10s/50s? Occasionally you might get a $10 or $50 if you go to an actual human cashier at the casino, but even then it is rare. Good question for the “general questions”?
I guess I can request 50s whenever I withdraw cash from the bank. Just haven’t thought about it.
This describe some of the guys I’m buddies with from the casinos. They walk around with slings (man purses), fanny packs, or cargo short pockets FULL of Benjamins. They whip out a wad of cash just to pay for a beer. One guy is known to spread out five figures worth of cash onto chairs bunched together to count his money.
Midwest Degenerate Gambler
-I wanna be like them some day! Not the showing off, but winning that much money!
My guess is your buddies are all poseurs. IOW, they’re not winning as much as they pretend to.
I just came back from a trip to Japan, where a LOT of small businesses are still cash only.
Here in my city, a local well known barbershop has been cash only for ages.
Fine, although where I live it’s 10 cents pretty much everywhere, which amounts to maybe 2.5% or under $1.50 for a fill. I fill maybe a couple of times a month, so it adds up over a year to maybe $36, which I would never notice. It’s worth it to me not to have to deal with the people who work at gas stations, especially now that they have more secure credit card payments at most pumps (just tapping).
Parking meters: all the meters in San Francisco accept credit and debit cards, and also have tap to pay. I used to carry quarters (mostly you get maybe 15 minutes for a quarter) but paying with a card is much easier, you just cycle up or down to the amount of time that you want.
I’ve got nothing against using cash, but I got out of the habit during Covid and just went on from there. I do carry a modest amount of cash, but I can go weeks between withdrawals.
I was in a parking garage and forgot to have small change or bills. The machine took my twenty but gave me nineteen one dollar coins in return. I didn’t mind so much, it was fun using them and they were legal tender.
But my favorite story involving cash was about my father. And see, I sometimes wondered where I got my occasional orneriness from, this taught me.
Back in the early 80’s my folks were selling their house, and purchasing a smaller one. The realtor they dealt with was a nice lady but it turns out the head of the office was a tempremental jerk off. So the terms of sale and purchase were settled, with the final signing of the papers in a couple days. My dad would need to have about $2000 and he said he’d pay by check…The office manager said he required a certified check not a personal one and my dad was pissed, although he wouldn’t use the word. He felt his integretiy was being impugned. So he told the realtor he’d pay in cash when the time came. He went to the bank and got the required amount, in ones and fives. He put the cash in a bag and tossed it like salad. When the time came he poured it out on the jerk’s desk. Dad said the guy got red in the face and stomped like a toddler, saying he wouldn’t take it. Dad said his one mistake was not taking it back then and there, as legally the guy had refused payment. Jerk made the realtor help him count it, and was more angry when Dad would not help.
At the reception following my dad’s funeral, when everyone got a chance to tell stories, this is what I told about Dad and everyone laughed.
I got a BS parking ticket once on a Saturday. The ticket stated I had 48 hours to pay it (at the PD station). I did the same thing as your dad did, except with assorted coins all jumbled up in a bag & went over to pay it on Sun, except they wouldn’t take it as they only accepted payments M-F, 9-5 or 6 or 7(?) so I fought it.
The cop stated I had two business days to make payment. I told the judge the PD is in operation 24/7/365 & they specifically printed it with “48 hours” on it; therefore it is reasonable to assume that the clock starts ticking when I get the ticket & that if they wanted it to be two business days they surely could have printed that on their custom tickets/envelopes but they chose not to.
The judge sided with me & dismissed the ticket so I had to go thru the zip-loc bag & pull the coins out & sort them myself but at least I kept my money; all $10 or so. Principle, man, principle!
I don’t sneer at rich people for being rich. I will, however, sneer at them for behaving like that. They don’t look impressive to me, they look like insecure assholes. I suspect they look like that to a lot more people than they think.
(And did you not notice the part about not giving people sweaty money?)
Agreeing with this.
That is utterly and absolutely normal for real estate transactions. Your father was way out of line.
For only $2000? No he wasn’t. The realtor told him the guy was a butthole all the time. She made sure the office door was cracked open slightly, so the others in the office could hear him being a jerk.
I won’t use Venmo or any other payment program on a computer or phone. It’s just something to get hacked without any guarantee.
I mostly use a credit card because I pay it off each month and I get cash back. I usually take out $300 for spending money for places that charge extra for credit cards.
I’ve never dealt with a business that is credit card or payment ap only.
$100. But I was confused as to what is a
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I use cash for anything under $20, to save them CC fees. or when buying gas.
Yep, and then they say “Siri, remind me to…”. 
Many of which do not accept cash today, IRL. And of course some low end stores wont take cards. (If their average sale is $10 or so, I cant blame them).
Rap Music. that is who Al was parodying here-
You can have a card and be unbanked.
My wife HATES it when some jerk licks his fingers as he counts out his cash then hands the germ farm to her. She openly uses hand sterilizer after.
$10000.01 or more. It is called a CTR in the USA. They are routine. No one looks at them. Unless you are under investigation for something else. They do not trigger an audit or investigation.
But do NOT, repeat NOT break up a transaction to avoid the CTR. That is structuring and is a crime in of itself.
Exactly.
Gambling/casino terminology.
Licked money. I win.