Joel Hainley : San Francisco Bay Area Software Consultant

I was in a liquor store this morning on my way to work. ( getting a water..it was damned hot this morning ), and got into line behind a woman/girl and her ~ 18 month old son. She was buying a small gatorade ( a lot of HFCS in that crap ), and a small bottle of water, and she asked for a lottery scratch off ticket, whatever those are called. ( i’ve bought six of them in my lifetime, the sixth one resulted in $100 payout, so i quit playing while I was ahead )

Anyways, she’s got her gatorade, water, scratcher thing. The cashier gives her the total somewhere under $4. She hands him an American Express card, he runs the card. Declined. She says ok i’ll be right back, and grabs the kid and leaves. Apoo and I make our exchange for the water and I hit the door to get to work, and air conditioning, as i’m walking across the parking lot, I see our friend from inside the door digging under her floor mats in her car counting change. GEEZUS!

If you can’t put $4 on you AMEX you need to stop and think about what that means, not go digging under your floor mats.