“hired GFs”?!?
And men get all the blame for having a dirty mind smh
Think my mind might be running more along "color me skeptical" in this thread.
Anyway there's nothing wrong with hiring an escort for a special occasion, although hiring one to celebrate the end of a coronavirus lockdown in a crowded bar when the virus is still out and about could almost be viewed as abusive... unless one does actually tip with a few hundred dollar bills (and provide an N95 mask and a class brand of hand sanitizer). If I were working my way through law school as an escort, I'd probably skip the early stages of the economy's re-opening and hang out in my flat reading up on contract law.
I mean it's barely up into decent territory these days to tip grocery shopper/drivers at least 30% or $30 whichever is more... and shopper/drivers don't even have to dress up for a gig plus they often have to bring along their own masks and hand sanitizer.
I give money to my friends sometimes. 500 here, 500 there. It adds up but it’s fine, I have a budget for it
I mean I don’t think it’s suspicious unless you’re trying to buy a 500K boat in 100 dollar bills lol...cash is still common. I don’t know about after corona though.
I give money to my friends so that’s why
Ha ha! I give money to my friends sometimes too. Or, they might ask for a loan, but if I decide to say yes I definitely figure it's a gift.
But see my main problem with cash denominations and ATMs in that situation is that that the machines don't dispense ten-dollar bills, much less fives. And it's particularly awkward to ask the recipient of a loan if they can break a twenty. If they could, why would they be asking to borrow five or ten bucks?
You and I and our respective pals probably have way different budgets, for cash transactions at least. I don't know if I've actually ever had a hundred dollar bill in hand, and if I did it would have been useless unless someone would break it at a store.
I do agree that a lot of issues involving cash might be different after corona. Having the wherewithal to come up with cash might be pretty different too. Lots of people will be owing back rent and even if their job is still there when their local economy starts to revive, not many of us could easily swing extra rent payments on top of regular bills. So talk about budgets, wow... stuff we take for granted now in ordinary spending might be getting the axe. And that has implications for the shops that sell whatever we used to plunk down three or four bucks in cash --or $10 or $20.
The barter economy may well rise again, ya think? Not just those guys on the train flashing a jacket open to reveal a selection of fake (or, stolen) watches. This time it could be more like people offering to trade a silver money clip for a taxi to the airport. Or a chicken (a live one, too old to lay eggs) for a carton of just-hatched baby chickens and a couple bags of feed to get them started towards becoming providers of "what's for breakfast". Not everyone has the nerve or skill to convert a past-prime hen directly into "what's for dinner", that's for sure.
Cash or plastic, life after corona's probably going to be a strange trip. Hope we can hang onto a sense of humor. That is after all the best medicine, or at least sometimes the only one available.
