homo escapeons

THE WATERMARK OF THE BEAST

Yesterday afternoon the young clerk behind the counter at a W*ndy’s Restaurant would not accept my crisp $50 bill.

I calmly explained that

A: my printer was not that good,

B: the note was legal Government printed currency,

C: it came out of a Bank machine, and that

D: he could use the scanner to check it.

With his voice cracking like the pimply faced putz in the Simpsons he calmly said,
“We don’t accept $50's or $100’s and we don’t have a scanner!”

“Why you little %#$@&*”
“Well I guess we’ll go to McD*nalds.”

Holy-freakin’-cashless-society-number-of-the-beast-Batman! Did somebody forget to tell me that the Tribulation had already started?

And speaking of Tribulations, why do these uppity Retailers think that they are doing us all a favour by allowing us to shop in their stores? The customer is no longer always RIGHT, the customer is an IDIOT if he/she doesn’t understand that it is a priviledge and an honor to be able to buy crap from our store!

Look, I don’t blame the pimply faced half-awake teenager . I realise that he has no concept of customer satisfaction. Hell he had to get out of bed before 3pm on a Saturday! Oh thankyou thankyou thankyou kid. I am sooo grateful. But you weren’t even a sparkle in your Old Man’s eye when shopping was customer oriented.

So if the holier-than-thou la-di-frickin’-da retailers can arbitrarily decide that they are not going to accept REAl cash, then why are the Banks still handing them out? Who is in charge here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast
"As many of you are aware, the prevailing interpretation of view of Revelation 13:16-17 is that "the Beast will require all people to receive the mark on their right hands or foreheads in order to buy or sell anything"..

little did I know that this would also include buying %$#@&* Hamburgers.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/counterfeit/
“Most retailer business is cash, and most retailers work on small margins. So if you get a couple of fake hundreds in a day and you can’t get compensation for that, it’s a double whammy because it’s not only your profit gone, but also the merchandise bought with the fake,” says Diane Brisebois, president of the Retail Council of Canada.

http://www.cyberclass.net/cnote.htm
“And what about all those millions in suspended animations? That, Wolf says, is good business sense for the government as well. By sitting on its “seigniorage” – the profit it made from the original sale of those notes - it avoids the cost of replacing the bills when they wear out.”

“Financial institutions find a lot of the fakes. But they report that counterfeit credit cards are a much bigger problem for them than counterfeit currency. In 2005,

counterfeit cards cost them $280 million —

dwarfing the $9.3 million lost from phony money.

80% of all transactions under $20 are in cash.

Overall cash volume and usage continues to increase, and it remains a preferred medium of payment for Americans.”

I tried to contact W*ndy’s but their contact site is under construction and yes Mickie D’s accepted my $50 bill. So NYEH!

So much for my idea of asking for enough fifty dollar bills to cover my entire nekked body by midnight on my fiftieth birthday

(less than one month away..hint hint..)
I guess that I will have to be covered in gold leaf instead.

OOOCH... OUCH... D'OH!