Best Argument EVER For Using A Cash Card
Sure, cash cards are convenient, banks and credit card companies have been pushing their use as being easier and safer than carrying cash. But here is the best - the absolute best - reason for not carrying cash: You have no idea where that $100 bill you're holding has been.
MENOMONIE, Wis. - Debbie Hulleman's pet dog Pepper likes to chew things. She's gnawed on lipstick canisters, shampoo bottles, ball point pens, toothpaste and now the list includes nearly $750 in cash — gobbled right down……
……While Hulleman and husband were on a four-day vacation in late June, she asked her mother in Oakdale, Minn., to take care of Pepper and Zach, the family's dogs.
Pepper got into a purse belonging to a friend of her mother's and chewed the cash from an envelope.
Hulleman's mother recovered some of the money that Pepper spit out, thinking she had it all. But when Hulleman returned from the trip and went to clean up her dogs' mess outside, she noticed a $50 bill hanging from one pile.
The family recovered $647 and swapped it for fresh currency at a bank.
"We have a $100 bill that can't be recovered because you need three-fourths of a bill and it is only half of a bill," Hulleman said, laughing.
The nasty chore of sorting through dog feces netted about $400, the 50-year-old dog lover said.
"It wasn't that bad. I soaked it and strained it and rinsed it. I just kept rinsing it and rinsing it. I had rubber gloves on of course," she said.
Yes, but you had gloves on. The rest of us don't.
By Anthony (Los Angeles), Thursday, 19 July , 2007 @ 9:54 pm
Eww.
By terrence, Friday, 20 July , 2007 @ 12:17 pm
This is not surprising behavior for a dog owner: dogs first, screw everyone else. SHE wears rubber gloves, but as Gaius points out the rest of us don’t - too bad.