Posted on 06/25/2016 5:37:47 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Maybe it's just me but people tend to get in line to spend their money.
I was at the baseball park when I visited Chicago. Wrigley Field. Costs a lot of money to get in. But instead of watching the game, most people line up at the concession stands to spend their money. $8 for a beer. $6 for a hotdog. $5 for ice cream bar. I think it was $4 for bottled water but who's buying bottled water when there are $8 beers to buy!
Always with the standing in line to spend their money. And then if you are sitting in the stands trying to pay attention to the game, there are concession people walking up and down the aisles shouting "Hot Dogs", "Peanuts" , "Cracker Jack", etc.
So even if you aren't standing in line to spend your money, people are trying to get you to spend your money even when sitting down.
I loaded my credit cards into my Smartphone. Something called Apple Pay. Now I can stand in line and swipe my phone to pay for things. No need for carrying cash. Even the Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts finds most people standing in line to pay with cell phones instead of cash money. Technology marches on and they are always finding more efficient ways to stand and line and spend your money.
I go to the county fair and there are endless ways to get in line and spend your money. Tickets for the Ferris Wheel. Tickets to try and toss a basketball into a warped hoop to win absolutely nothing. Tickets to throw darts at balloons. Tickets to get on a cart on rails that takes you through a stupid haunted house. Then you get to stand in line and spend money on food. Deep fried Twinkies. Deep fried grasshoppers. Deep fried ice cream. Deep fried dough. Then you get to stand in line and pay to use the bathroom. The attendant has his hand out as you leave the toilet collecting soiled $1 bills and pocket change.
I always find myself in line to spend my money.
Now people are going to reply to this thread saying it is a stupid thread and they they never stand in line to spend money. In fact, they don't spend any money at all. They don't ride Ferris wheels, they don't eat hot dogs, they don't drink beer, they don't go to Disneyland and they don't go to county fairs. They don't stand in line to go to the top of the Empire State Building. They are too smart for that. That's what they will tell us.
Now people will stand in lines for hours ... or even camp in line for days ... to purchase what? Tickets to a crappy Star Wars movie or 25% off on some unnecessary electronic gizmo.
Sheesh!
That’s where Barry’s putting Britain after Brexit.
The efficient way to spend your money is the efficient way for the government to monitor you and control your money.
Yep .... I just don’t buy a whole lot of crap and especially if I see there is a line. PS .. I don’t fly either.
After reading this I had to fetch my wallet and count
the cash within. $403. Need to make a trip to the bank.
Pay for things with a telephone? When the pits of Hell
freeze over.
Actually, I don't do any of those things.
And the Cubs didn’t even win.
I hate crowds.
Use a credit card mostly at fuel pumps.
Have not flown commercial air going on 31 years.
Pay bills with checks mailed in or in person.
I am the future.
I’d stand in line to spend your money but DC is ahead of me, and the line is tremendously large in length.
Of course not. And who cares...they’re just the sideshow at the world’s biggest beer garden.
I’ve stood in line at the Empire State Building, while being barked at by attitudinous, large women stuffed into too-tight uniforms. It was a nice view once I got up there, but can’t say I’d do it again. That’s one of those tourist bucket list things.
I’ve stood in line to get into Wrigley Field, paid outrageous prices for concessions, drank way too much beer, got sunburned and enjoyed it. Nobody was barking at me with an attitude.
Amusment parks? Meh. They’ve lost the thrill. Too much expense, too much pointless walking around, too much artifice. The latest and greatest roller coasters will have to soldier on without me.
I plan to stand in line on November 8, 2016, wearing my Cubs hat.
In reply to your last paragraph, I would say sometimes I find myself in line to spend my money. Most of the time though, I do not. The function of whether or not I spend time in line is a function of cost/benefit of the item I am looking to acquire.
JoMa
PS - Hasn’t the internet changed the construct of waiting in line to spend moeny in at least a few markets in our economy?
Look what they do for Black Friday...idiots. The week Kroger’s puts gift cards at 4 times the gas points, I go buy enough for the 7 grands and 5 great grands and hubby’s Christmas presents in Amazon cards. 10 mins, no fuss, very little line. And I don’t have to go to the dreaded shops with rude pushing people and not enough cashiers or stock, not to mention I can’t carry my gun in those places all have those no gun signs up. Crime in Memphis is bad. Drivers are worse. Ditto goes for BD cards, I load up on Amazon cards when they go to 4 times the gas points. Same goes for eating out gift cards. Nice to have $1 off a 35 gal of gas a couple times a month. And Discover gives me 1% cash back too.
Hubby took grandson 14 to the new big Bass Pro in Memphis, cost noting but the gas, then they went to Mud Island Museum, that cost a whopping $27 with admission and $3 sodas, plus the gas. Bass Pro was the big hit, kid likes hunting and fishing.
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