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To: marcos who wrote (27846)	12/15/2006 4:40:03 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78419

I think the letter would be "S" and we both know what that stands for. You are getting it however. We need a better system. They have these magnetic cards that slide along machines which auto debit and sometimes even credit accts. @ the main facto-fiat joint. You can even get pieces of things that will dip into a virtual credo-bukit. It is called the Peter Pan system as it is only balanced in Neverland. Well, pretty soon they will get them out your way, and while they form a kind of Bloombergian invasion of your innermost sanctimonium, your buying habits, (which ironically you used to publicly flaunt by planting pink flamingos on your lawn and by your blatantly ostentatious choice of lawn-tractor attachments - but cannot bear a stranger seeing same on a computer print-out...), this very essence of a man -- you will never need to see them damn coppers to make or take exact change again. They will all be virtual. and you can always make excuses for pushing the wrong button when it says "tip required", and of course you never carry change anymore... so the cheapo's paradise... Ignore the fact that they have jacked the rates of everything 4% to pay the charges for interac, and you feel like a fool making a purchase of 40 cents with a piece of plastic, so you always shop the limit. They do encourage spending a tad... I think the solution is to make everything people buy either a buck, 5 bucks, ten bucks, 20 bucks, or a 100. No in between. Fik it. Life's too short and the clerk's break time too precious to have anyone agonize over petty distinctions such as how much some trivial store item really worth, or how many you may really need. Don't buy one roll of TP, buy 20. Costco has the right idea. EC<:-}