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[theinevitable]

Is it a nationwide thing that lots of small businesses do not accept cards, or just a "st louis is a fucked up city" thing?

Was all set to buy a socket set at this local hardware store (opened in 1873!) and was told they didn't want my money unless it was in the form of paper with dead racists on it. This happens a lot, but usually at diners or places where the average purchase is like 4 dollars.

All of the food trucks can get it together to accept cards, and yet brick-and-mortar stores can't? What gives.

[pmcd9]

The credit card companies are basically the Mafia. The cost of using that machine is basically %10-20 off the top. A lot of mom and pops with super tight margins, thanks to Walmart, can't afford to pay that money.

[theinevitable]

I am having a Problem fixing my bike that I do not even know how to explain. I was correct in thinking that learning how to fix my bike would be a fun puzzle. I just didn't think it would be a puzzle where tightening one bolt would loosen the one on the other side.

[pmcd9]

Oh, hey, Inev...I thought that's why bike work generally called for two wrenches at a shot, dawg. Go diggity.

The hardware store would not accept his credit card.

[theinevitable]

Yesterday I met a guy who is prominent in Urban Planning circles who... has the same name as me, but spelled differently. It tickled my funny bone to see him give a talk and hear about how (my name) is so important and prominent and we are so lucky to have him.

That was a bad way to explain what I was doing wrong. The bike tool I was using (crank puller) has several parts that were screwed together (I guess for storage?), but you are only supposed to use one at a time. I thought that there was a way to screw them together and use my socket set on the whole thing, since I did not have a big enough socket for the bigger part. But that just dis-assembled the two parts, rather than disassembling the bike.

And my solution to the Card problem was to stop by Lowe's on the way home. So I guess I am part of the problem. Now I own a socket set and a ratchet. Cool. If that mom-and-pop place were closer to my house or to an ATM things might have gone differently.

[jaydub]

There is a donut shop and a hair cutting place around me that are cash only.  As far as I can tell, everyplace else takes plastic.  I think there's even a Starbucks (or maybe a Peets) that somehow uses your cell phone to pay.

[miles]

There is a donut shop and a hair cutting place around me that are cash only.  As far as I can tell, everyplace else takes plastic.  I think there's even a Starbucks (or maybe a Peets) that somehow uses your cell phone to pay.

There's a local coffee/juice shop that somehow took payment by cell phone from another customer when I was there the other day. She didn't have her wallet with her and it took them a few minutes to figure it out so it got kind of tense. It's definitely the kind of place that before entering I would check my wallet for cash.

[smick]

Yesterday I met a guy who is prominent in Urban Planning circles who... has the same name as me, but spelled differently. It tickled my funny bone to see him give a talk and hear about how (my name) is so important and prominent and we are so lucky to have him.

That happened to me when I went to an open mic in Reno, NV.  I sent a text to the host to see if I could get a slot.  He said "Sure, if that *Person's Name* didn't scare you off!" 

That struck me as super weird, like maybe autocorrect had mangled what he was sending me, so I just shrugged it off and went to the show the next day.  When I got there it turns out there was a Sean McBride who had done a show a few days earlier and had a tiff with one of the local comic/promoters.  Then I show up Sean McBride, looking to do time and get mistaken.

Apparently he does Irish American kinda jokes.   Who knew?

[side_show]

Today I'm gonna go to that crazy butcher where everyone is shouting and the long counter is three people deep.  It's in the heart of a working class neighbourhood and it is quality without any frills.  I am slowly getting over the intimidation factor of knowing what I want and how much of it I want, on demand, when my number is shouted.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Yelling "Text [supervisor] then 'Eat shit and die"' is not the best way to test out a new phone feature. FYI.

[littlefallsmets]

Mishear "dinosaur" as "anal sores" and embark upon yet another adventure in parody writing.

[side_show]

Hey, it's Canada day!  It's 2:45am and I'm wide awake thanks to the large Coke Slurpee I drank - apparently too late in the day - yesterday.  After getting the house tidied, I've been enjoying some music, playing Drawception and looking forward to the BBQ lake party we've been invited to later today. 

[pmcd9]

It's definitely Slurpee weather.

[Arachno-capitalist]

It's definitely Slurpee weather.

I own a slurpee machine but lack non-diet soda (needed for the slurpee machine). Sure I could go buy non-diet soda, but then I'm already in 7-11 where slurpees require no labor.

[wombat]

Yelling "Text [supervisor] then 'Eat shit and die"' is not the best way to test out a new phone feature. FYI.

Is Ash watching? Because I really want to give this a thousand cans.