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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: What's the world coming to? :-) - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 9-Jan-84 04:04:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  9 04:04:34 1984
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fortune!rpw3    Jan  8 22:01:00 1984

Cash is the ONLY form of payment which someone is obligated to accept.
Notice that the phrase "tender" does indeed mean "offer". A friend of
mine badly scared an Atlanta Sears-Roebuck manager a few years ago
when he went to pick up a refrigerator. After they had loaded it in his
truck (yes, they were that silly) ((but before he drove away)) he
"tendered" payment in cash, exact change. The manager refused to take it.
The friend said something like, "I will offer to pay you one more time,
in legal tender, then I will drive away with my new refrigerator you
have given me for free." The manager took the cash.

Not sure that proves anything, but it's a fun true story.

(Of course, I don't think it says anything about the merchant being
required to make change.)

Rob Warnock

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