Category Archives: Money

Local, Money

Guess I Need a New Tire

Heading out of the house and to the car, I just happened to notice the rea right tire seemed a little low on air. So I went ove to check it and didn’t see an nail or anything visibly wrong. But it was definitely low on air. The only place around here that I know with an air machine is the Thornton’s gas station. They have an air machine off to the side and they charge a buck twenty-five for about 3 minutes of air. If you have to pump up all four tires, be prepared to spend five buck in quarters at the air machine.

Anyway, I pumped it back up to 30 psi and went to work. At lunch I decided to talk a walk outside to the parking lot and check the tire. The fucker is running low again. There must be a nail in it that I don’t see or maybe a leak from the valve. I don’t know.

This is just my luck. I wanted to wait until November to get 2 new tires fro the car. Now it looks like I need to get one ASAP. I don’t like getting just one tire, so now I’ve got to scramble and find some extra cash to buy two tires a month earlier than planned. Ain’t that the way it goes? FML

Coins, Local, Money

Penny Jar

What do you do with your loose change? I empty my pockets every night and drop all the loose change into a quart size Mason jar that I keep on the dresser. Its getting pretty full. Maybe I’ll drop it off at the bank next tie I know I’m going to that side of town. I bet there’s at least two hundred bucks in there.

Business, Life, Local, Money

No Cash

I’m a little pissed off. I got a new ATM card in the mail. I didn’t ask for the damn thing, but evidently they expire every couple of years, so the bank sends out a new one.

So I got the new card out of the envelope – almost threw it away because it looked like junk mail. The letter said to call a toll free number and jump through hoops to validate the card. I called the number and pressed this, then I pressed that, then I pressed something else and I was getting pretty fucking tired of all the instructions. And then the phone call just ended. The bank never said congrats you are finished, or thanks for doing business with us. It just terminated the call. WTF?

But I figured it was good. Until I went to the fucking ATM today and the card wouldn’t get accepted. I needed to draw out some cash and the card was declined. WTF?

Money, Sports

No Basketball?

Are you as sick of hearing about pro athletes demanding more money as I am? I think they all are making plenty of money and threatening a strike for more money is just plain greedy. The team owners are a bunch of greedy fuckers, too. The ticket prices are too high for an average family to go to games, the concessions are too expensive, and when so many people are out of work and losing homes, to threaten a basketball strike is just really offensive to me. I have no sympathy for either side and could care less if they even have any pro basketball this year. Let them all sit on the bench for a year.

Coins, Life, Money

Exchange Rate

Most people go through life and don’t give a second thought to the currency exchange rate for money between countries. But if you have to travel on business outside of the country or you plan a vacation at a different country, you will suddenly need to know how to change U.S. Dollars into the local currency, and you will need to know how much things cost in that local currency so you don’t get ripped off by people who take your money.