OK, it’s simple! Really it is, I promise!

  • Person A writes person B a check.
  • Person B brings said check into my store to cash this check.
  • Person A’s check is a low number check and NO STORE likes low number checks. They scream STARTER CHECK!
  • Now if person A or B is a known quantity, we can cash said check, IF WE TRUST HIM/HER.
  • Trust meaning if the check is returned, will this person pay us back?!
  • If person A is an unknown and we don’t trust person B to reimburse, we automatically refuse to cash said check.
  • If person A is an unknown and person B is a regular but we know nothing about him, we refuse to cash the check.
  • Make sense?
  • It should, it’s really easy.

Tori, print this out and place it in everyone’s pay envelope this week please. Cut of the stuff above the title and these instructions and print out enough to give everyone, please. Thank you.

Back to my exciting narrative of vacation life.

Yesterday we took an unknown trail. It’s on the maps because it has a name, Placer Gulch. Very rough trail, lots of fun shit on this trail.

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When leaving Placer Gulch, we moved into Picyune Gulch and promptly felt lost. Now don’t get me wrong, I could just turn around and head back the way we came, but that’s the way a girl would do it, not a guy. We pressed on. We passed several people on the way through Picyune Gulch and while Nina said we should ask directions, I felt it would betray the guy code to do so. We pressed on. About this time I noticed we were down to a quarter tank of gas and this concerned me. If we were truly lost, it would take more than a quarter tank of gas to keep us warm overnight. Finally we came across a federal ranger. Now I’m still not going to ask him directions or even tell him that I think we’re lost, but a guy does ask, “Where’s the closest gas station?” and hope for some useful intel to get us back to where we needed to be. Ranger Rick was useless as tits on a bull. It was his first day on the job in this district and he was out there learning where things are.

Well, we made it out with plenty of gas to spare. We even took more trails before heading to Ridgeway for the cheap gas.

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Nina is still sleeping, but once she’s up and ready we’re heading home. It was a fun trip and we look forward to doing it again.