It's going to take some time to get used to guns being a part of American life. Along with the 'Please Turn Off Your Cellphones' sign, and the 'No Smoking' sign, there was a 'No Firearms' sign... complete with stylised diagram for those without the ability or inclination to read.
The security guard, though, was carrying a gun. He was a nice looking man in his late 50's or early 60's. His main contribution for the half-hour or so we were there was to wander around talking to people, and to tell someone to turn off their cellphone. The fact that he was carrying a gun can mean only one thing: that part of his job duties are, at some point and under certain circumstances, to kill someone.
It'll take a long time to get used to this.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., 148, 149, 150... Check!
Almost every day something happens to connect us closer to day-to-day American life. On Thursday the checkbooks (check/cheque?) for my bank account arrived. As appears to be standard, they're perforated at the top rather than the left hand edge, and they have a 'memo' line near the bottom where you can make a note of what the check is for (I'm assuming that this will then appear on your bank statement... otherwise I don't see the point). I have a feeling that they don't like mailing them out too often (they arrived by UPS, which wouldn't have been the cheapest way to ship them)... so they sent me 5 checkbooks - a total of 150 checks.
That should see me OK for a while.
On Friday morning we'd waited the required 10 days for my immigration information to get into the Social Security system, so I went down to the Social Security office first thing in the morning (with the ever-helpful Sherri, our relocation consultant), to put in my application. Fortunately, my immigration information was all available, and the application went OK. I should have a Social Security number within a fortnight.
It's going to take some time to get used to guns being a part of American life. Along with the 'Please Turn Off Your Cellphones' sign, and the 'No Smoking' sign, there was a 'No Firearms' sign... complete with stylised diagram for those without the ability or inclination to read.
The security guard, though, was carrying a gun. He was a nice looking man in his late 50's or early 60's. His main contribution for the half-hour or so we were there was to wander around talking to people, and to tell someone to turn off their cellphone. The fact that he was carrying a gun can mean only one thing: that part of his job duties are, at some point and under certain circumstances, to kill someone.
It'll take a long time to get used to this.
It's going to take some time to get used to guns being a part of American life. Along with the 'Please Turn Off Your Cellphones' sign, and the 'No Smoking' sign, there was a 'No Firearms' sign... complete with stylised diagram for those without the ability or inclination to read.
The security guard, though, was carrying a gun. He was a nice looking man in his late 50's or early 60's. His main contribution for the half-hour or so we were there was to wander around talking to people, and to tell someone to turn off their cellphone. The fact that he was carrying a gun can mean only one thing: that part of his job duties are, at some point and under certain circumstances, to kill someone.
It'll take a long time to get used to this.
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They don't check signatures with credit cards, but they do tend to ask for ID, so it's worth carrying around your drivers licence as well (as I learnt when I didn't have mine with me). But it certainly seems to be the case that some places don't check at all. You can pay at the pump in many gas stations by just inserting your card (or anyone else's) at the pump.
You can pay at a lot of places (especially supermarkets) with your ATM card. You need to type in your PIN when you use that.
It's surprising that they don't have Chip and PIN for credit cards here, though.
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