Want to Pay Cash? That’ll Cost You Extra

June 18, 2024, 03:36 PM

chellim1

I needed change for a $20 and the place I stopped into a Regions bank because it was closer to the main road than driving through the strip center to the Schnucks. There were no cars in the drive through but I went into the lobby. I was the only customer so I thought I made the right call.

What can I do for you?" asks the teller.
"I'd like two tens for a twenty" I said.
"Do you have your account number and ID?" asks the teller.
"No, but I have ID" I said, and showed him my driver's license.
"Ok, can I take that in the back and scan it and run it through the computer?" asks the teller.
"No, I'll go to Schnucks", I said.
"I understand." says the teller.

All of this to get change for a $20 bill?

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

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