Fuckers won't peel right.

Ooh, I hate that. Bananas are supposed to be easy.

I am so looking forward to going home and ... mopping my kitchen for a second time today. And moving the fridge to mop under there. And possibly mop the cabinets.

But it's not work. The floors and cabinets will not require reports or troubleshooting or conversation that leads to anxiety.

t /trying to help put a positive spin on things

I'm sure (or at least am hoping) that it's just that my dollar value has been low, and that's why they haven't asked for anything beyond swiping it.

Yep. Some places have a ten dollar and under threshold where no signature is required, and other places it's twenty-five dollars or less. It all depends what the merchant is comfortable with. At the restaurant, we require a signature for all purchases. It makes life easier when dealing with the liquor control board.

My boss gave me his credit card to buy some stuff once. No one seemed to notice I wasn't Louis.

At my place of employment we have Corporate P-cards. Which are only issued to one person per department, usually the accountant. Who never actually has to buy anything, so we are always signing out her p-card to make purchases. Another example of how safe and secure our procedures are.

Good grief, Sophia. That's so crazy!!!

I dislike when they don't require signature. It just seems shady. The only place I appreciate it is the gas station. Though this is less of an issue for me with the credit card--but this is why I DON"T like that I could use my ATM card as a credit card. Debit is fine, but when I dont' have to sign and it comes right out of my bank account? NOT ON.

At my B&N (and probably at all of them), the cafe doesn't make you sign if your purchase is under a certain amount (I think it's $10 or $20), but at the music and main registers, we make you sign for everything.

I dislike when they don't require signature.

Seriously. I WANT to sign.

Of course, I don't have kids or other people who might wing off to Starbucks to grab a snack, so I can see the convenience but...

I'm really, really turning my financial ship around by paying super-laser focused attention to every little detail...which is a 180 from my lalala it will all be okay stance of the last few years (ok, I confess, my whole life).

So now I'm all ocd about the bank statement and keeping a check register. I am balancing my checkbook for the very first time. And those cc receipts? Key to keeping the system going.

I thought yesterday was interminable.

Today's interminability totally kicks yesterday's ass.

Oh yeah--and if I am traveling for work, and you don't give receipts unless I ask, half the time I forget to ask, and then it sucks for the expense report. Sigh. At least if I have to sign something, I'm more likely to remember to ask for a receipt.

Yes, some marketing group did an analysis, and found that it's more cost effective to not deal with the cards and the signing and the slips, etc. It's like when I didn't sign a check once. I called the bank and was all indignant that they cashed an unsigned check, and they said that it if it was under a certain amount, it was more cost effective to process the check and fix it later than to take the time and effort to determine that it was legit.

A blog of IM conversations (all the same person, I'm assuming): [link]

It's self-indulgent (but what blog isn't, at least a little?), but I did laugh at this entry, about political fundraising via IM, and how the "younger generation" would love that: [link]

Man, my bank once refused to cash a check when the cents portion of the longhand line wasn't readable (it was readable in the little box.) The accountant at the place the check was written to was as bewildered as I.