No. Credit started with the ’ grocery store cashier’ having small pad with your name on it. You were expected to pay it off on payday. The order pads waitresses used were very popular. The grocery store I worked in as a 12 year old bag boy and sweeper had a shoe box with the pads in alphabetical order. 70 years ago!
Straker UFO about 3 years ago
Peasants got credit cards?
DaveG1960 about 3 years ago
That’s the problem, it’s not due, it’s to the discretion of the shopkeeper….
Meg: All Seriousness Aside about 3 years ago
“But it’s not ‘give credit where payment is overdue’”.
Troglodyte about 3 years ago
What about “taking credit with no contribution”? Is there a pithy saying for that?
llong65 about 3 years ago
yeah, but your are past due on you credit.
sandpiper about 3 years ago
Nice try, though
comixbomix about 3 years ago
It ran headlong into “make payment where payment is due”.
billwog about 3 years ago
No. Credit started with the ’ grocery store cashier’ having small pad with your name on it. You were expected to pay it off on payday. The order pads waitresses used were very popular. The grocery store I worked in as a 12 year old bag boy and sweeper had a shoe box with the pads in alphabetical order. 70 years ago!
raybarb44 about 3 years ago
Not quite that meaning…..
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
JesseLouisMartinez about 3 years ago
How about paying your bill when it’s due
gammaguy about 3 years ago
That “ad” is “aged”.
brklnbern about 3 years ago
Sounds like a Biden redefinition.