“So you mean to tell me that whenever I withdraw money in a foreign currency, the official exchange rate can be ignored and any amount of money can be taken from my account? And I have no way to determine what that rate will be before I withdraw the money, and I will have absolutely…
Tag: Money

Visual Riddles: Grocery Store
You can be assured that, at least once, in the near or distant past, some quantity of cash was sucked under the conveyor belt…

Gentle Ways to be Encouraged to Pay your Library Fine
I was back in Vancouver, and making my rounds through the libraries to snatch up books I’d put on hold while I was away. It was going pretty well — #1 on the list was The Vital Question in preparation for a book club meeting I had in a few days — but it was…