Visitors sue National Park Service over policy prohibiting cash payments

[Prairie_Seagull]

39. This is a very topical question for me in general.

We went out to a nice lunch yesterday. 300 bucks or so. When it came time to check out. I brought the cash to do so. The very good waitress brought the bill in that little pleather thingy they put the bill in and I put in it the cash and a nice tip. She grabbed it and walked away. Got about 10 feet away and opened it noticing it had cash in it. She came to a full stop did some quick math and was in the process of turning around and decided not to. Accepted it and we went on our merry way.

This is going to become an issue, I believe. My answer is to use more cash and in my own way try to make the point when confronted. What will it do? Probably not much except to make me feel like I am doing SOMETHING.

I have cash stashed in my car and in my home and have plenty of plastic just in case.

This push to all plastic is wrong headed in my view. Where does it lead? Is that progress? and for whom? Multi-national corporations. A percentage is charged to use plastic. Will this cost be passed to the consumer. I know it is sometimes. You know the card companies want this money. I'd prefer it if they don't get it