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Re: T shirt Price Info

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 2:10
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Robert Hailman wrote:

> I like cash - I bought my electric guitar and amp with cash, and that > was like $1800 altogether. > > > I use a debit card myself. It feels much safer...and I'm already enough > > in debt to the federal government. I *hate* being in debt. I see no > > reason to put myself further in debt just yet. > > I have a debit card, but it's on it's own account which only has $6 on > it - I pay for everything with cash, but then again I don't make too > many purchases where cash isn't a viable option. >
I like the debit card because I'm used to ordering things through the mail. Especially books, when I was in Korea and the only other way to get them was to *beg* friends who could afford to go Stateside to look for certain books, which they'd almost never come across....
> > But yes--I can see how people wouldn't know what a money order is, since > > I barely do myself. > > I barely know what they are either - I would've thought that people > outside of N. America would know what they are at least, but evidently > they don't even *exist* elsewhere.
Sure don't exist in South Korea. I wonder when the U.S. came up with them? YHL