So there you are in an Ybor City parking lot trying to force a dollar bill into that slot in the self-pay machine, and the dollar won't go in. ...more

January 27, 2009

It was the weekly meeting of the Brandon '86 Rotary, which meets at some ungodly hour around sunrise in Buckhorn Springs. Maybe there's something in the water out there, but everyone seemed awfully chipper. ...more

August 25, 2008

Cold, hard, cash has always been "legal tender for all debts public and private" in the U.S.A. It says so right on the face of every dollar bill. That means it's accepted everywhere, right? Wrong. Next time you want to rent a car, don't offer to pay cash. It will probably be refused. Recently, I reserved a car with a major nationwide rental company, via the Internet. But when my husband and I went to pick up the vehicle, the local office of that company insisted we present a major credit card, which we did not have in hand at the time. Then they even refused cash on the barrelhead as an alternative. We use only debit cards; it keeps us from spending money we don't have. With virtually every other business in town, that makes us the very best, most-preferred, kind of customers, but not at this establishment. ...more

December 23, 2007

A bank teller in Clearwater, S.C., had a million reasons not to open an account for an Augusta, Ga., man Monday, authorities said. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing a fake $1 million bill, said Aiken County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Michael Frank. ...more

November 28, 2007

Anybody want to buy a hockey team? Anybody at all? ...more

November 28, 2007

An 80-year-old Port Richey man has traveled the world because "I wanted to see how other people lived." ...more

October 3, 2007