This & That
Did you know that Enterprise "We-Pick-You-Up" car rental doesn’t take cash? I have never been in a business before where they didn’t accept cash! And they don’t like to take debit cards either when they ask for a credit card before you drive away in the car you rented. Fortunately, I have an American Express card which was acceptable. The cash thing came up because my insurance company pays a flat rate for car rental and that doesn’t cover the taxes.
This afternoon, or maybe tomorrow I must go back to Walmart’s and get some more chair pads. We have six plastic chairs with backs on our deck and I got six pads. Then, after I got home and put them out, I realized that we need six pads more for the backs of the chairs. So far there are three striped ones and three paisley ones but they go very well with each other because they are all brown and gold which are the main colors in the umbrella. Pictures will be posted when there are flowers in the boxes.
Today I need to clean the kitchen and bathroom floors.
What I am reading:
- Sharing Knife One by Louise McMaster Bujold. This is science fiction and was bought because I downloaded the beginning and got hooked!
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson. Someone asked me was it a real donkey, and yes, indeed, it was. Her name was Modestine!
- Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling was my father’s favorite author and I had memorized "If" and many of the poems in this book by the time I was a teenager. When my father died, my sister who was still in nursing training, got the little money he had and I got all his Kipling books. I thought then and still feel now that I got the best part.
QUOTATIONS:
"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."
Michael Jordan
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
Bertolt Brecht, 1933
aw….I find the idea of a donkey named Modestine to be perfectly charming! :o) !! I think some moving companies also don’t take cash….seems like we ran into that problem when we were moving my Brother’s stuff from DC to over here. I guess when you say they don’t take cash or debit card….that also means they won’t take a check? I’d be sunk, in that case! I hope you have a lovely day! :o) !! hugs, Weesprite
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OOOH! The Sharing Knife is up to three volumes now–I just bought the third one in hard cover. Of her non-Miles Vorkosigan books, the SK is my favorite series.
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I’ve noticed some other businesses here too that only accept credit and/or debit, no cash and such. Its weird, but at my previous job (bookkeeper) we handled no cash. Safety Reasons. My current job, they accept anything they pay for in cash. Same business type. It makes it much harder for us, who want to save, not mess with a credit card.
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I used to read a lot of science fiction then stopped for awhile. Maybe I should give this series a try.
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Mopping the kitchen floor is on my to do list today too. I have only rented a car pne time but I ran in to that same problem. Thankfully I had a credit card. I don’t know what we would do now as we no longer use them. Hugs, M
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I love gardens. I throw seeds into the ground and hope for the best. I love to plant flower seeds when it’s raining. I have the best luck with them coming up that way. I have all kinds of things growing. This year we have a lilac blooming it’s from a shoot of a lilac that never bloomed before. I am so so happy. It’s lighter colored then the lilac’s I planted out front. Our house is yellow
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so the purple lilacs look nice. I think. I have some little blue flowers that come up early spring and they look nice. I have peonies planted out front too. They look nice they are pink. I also have a mini rose that is orange, Peec gave it to me last year.
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That is the craziest thing I have heard. They don’t take cash and don’t like to take debit cards? I bet they have had problems in the past with employee’s taking cash. I thought a debit card worked the same way as a credit card? That is so strange. Wonder how much business they lose for not accepting cash. I guess if that is all someone has that is all they will get.
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“If” was my brother’s favorite poem and Meg read it at graveside for his funeral. I love it also.
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Do you always read several books at once? I have never done that, I prefer to focus on just one but now that I think about it, I can see the appeal in having a variety, especially if they are different types of books.
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That’s weird that they don’t even take a debit card. They usually don’t know the difference if you don’t tell them.
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Not taking cash or a debit card sounds bizarre to me.
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If you like the SK novels, there’s also her Chalion novels which are just as good. Kipling — oh yes! And yes, inheriting books is always good. That’s very bizarre about them not taking cash, very strange indeed. I’ve never heard of such a thing. Maybe they had employees walking away with the cash payments?
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We don’t have cash with which to make change, but we’re a dental clinic. I don’t know how you can read all those books at once!
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I remember from over 30 years ago a wealthy man I knew telling me a story about rental car places not taking cash. He even tried to give them enough money to pay for the car and they still didn’t do it. Funny. btw – I must have missed it – what happened to your car? Probably detailed in a diary entry from way back somewhere.
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I remember reading Travels with a Donkey many, many, many years ago … just seeing it on your list makes me feel nostalgic. I didn’t know it was by Robert Louis Stevenson, though. When I read it, I was so young that his name wouldn’t have meant anything to me – although my parents claimed that I could recite the entire “Child’s Garden of Verses” by heart when I was two years old.
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You read the most interesting books!
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