The way my Dad figured whether he could pay for various items – as he drifted through his day - was determined by how much physical cash was in his wallet at the time. Savings, credit cards, pocket money etc…Those piles were then given to my mother to deposit in the various accounts at the bank. I have childhood memories of my Dad, coming home from ‘cashing his pay check’ - laying all the cash on the dining room table and putting the bills into little piles – mortgage, The fact is cash is inefficient, easily lost, easily stolen, dirty… (Oh boy, you have no idea HOW dirty – it’s better being ignorant)… the list could go on and on.īut I’ve just got back from a holiday in America - visiting my parents (late 60s – both of them).įirst, let me give you some background. It isn’t that cash is dead – it’s that it is ‘unfashionable’, passé, out of touch. The future is contactless, or mobile, or NFC, or corrective eye surgery or whatever. Obscure South American lute player no one outside of the Lower East Side has ever heard of – without nary a rumpled dollar bill nor mishmash of coins ever ruining their sunny, Gen Y, home-brewed, sustainable, co-op day. There have been a wave of videos paraded across our laptops, over the past few months, depicting bespectacled young men (all in skinny jeans) effortless drifting through their day - in hip, urban settings - paying for coffee, parking, buying tickets to some So, a trip to the off-shore bank in Antilles is arranged for Marlo to look at his ‘cash’.Īnyway, this episode in the life of a fictional drug dealer reminded me of my parents (I WILL explain further) and resurrected an idea for a blog I’ve had for a while. To trust that his money was safe, he needed to That isn’t good enough for Marlo ‘My name is my name!’ Standfield. Well, new cartel member, Marlo Standfield keeps asking Prop Joe where his money is so Joe shows him a bank statement. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for the content of external websites.Does anyone remember the scene from season five of The Wire, when Proposition Joe starts laundering the money from the New Day Co-op drug cartel in an off-shore bank in Antilles? (If not, get the box set – we’ll talk in a few weeks). Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, posts, comments and submissions available. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, submissions or preferences. Wire service provided by Associated Press. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography unless otherwise stated.
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