Charity

This weekend Shannon and I went to redeem some very old gift certificates at Cold Stone. Since ice cream is a wonderful thing, we got a great big bucket (it's cheaper that way) and used up our gift certificates (hint hint). The total comes to something like $10.71 and I hand the employee 2 certificates. She returns and states that our total is down to $0.35. "35 cents?" I ask, to make sure I heard her right. She confirmed and I whipped out my debit card. (That may seem silly, paying off 35 cents with a debit card, but 1: I get 3 cents per use of my card, so that's good, and 2: it is a heck of a lot less silly than pulling out the only other form of payment I had on me: a $100 bill.) Anyway, a person standing behind us quickly thrusts a dollar bill at the employee, saying how it's silly that I put 35 cents on a card. I tried to tell her that it wasn't necessary, but she insisted, and I figured I'd let her have her 35 cent good moment.