Cash is still king!!
I have to laugh at the VISA check card commercial that shows a circus of people going through a toy store juggling toys, paying for their purchases with one swipe, and leaving with smiling faces and bulging shopping bags. The woman that gets out the checkbook slows the process down so much that everyone drops the toys they’ve been juggling. What’s the message: if you’re not using your debit or credit card, you’re a bane to shoppers everywhere?!
Give me a big fat break, purveyors of plastic. I get the whole suspended disbelief notion, but seriously, half of the retail clerks I encountered over the Black Friday weekend would rather have been sipping Hee Haw and gnoshing on Doritos. They couldn’t care less what I use to buy gifts for my friends and family. For that matter, neither do any of the other shoppers out there. They were more concerned about why the $7 CD player sold out so fast. And why half of the things in the ad weren’t even available.
We get it. It’s easy to use your plastic devil-inspired device to mindlessly spend money. Stop beating us over the head with it.
I still like CASH. I like cold hard cash. I like cash machines and trees that grow cash. I like Johnny Cash.
Cash is indeed still king. Long live the king.
