Which Reminds Me

If you have ever gone out to eat with Susie, paying your own check, you might remember how she always admonishes everyone to not pay the tip with pennies. That is because she at one time in high school worked as a waitress and always remembers how insulted she was when people unloaded their pennies on the table as the tip, leaving Susie with the strenuous effort of lifting all of these pennies off the table, and then all those pennies make your wallet feel like a lead weight in your purse, and your shoulder bag, if you use one, might even make your shoulder a bit sore, but at least you have your hands free. If you use one of those hand clutch bags of course you always have to be grasping it in your own hand. But anyway I always use a shoulder bag. Even so, I don't quite understand why Susie feels so insulted about that. To the bank it is just all the money—pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, paper. Paper beats rock, but that is a whole different story. We learned the rock paper scissors game in high school. Oh, did I produce scissors to your rock so that you imagine yourself entitled to crush me? I don't remember that clearly. Anyway, paper certainly is lighter and more valuable at the same time, but to the bank it is all about money. Money makes the world go round.