Late Post for NTIF

A couple of weeks ago we went to the Nort Texas Irish Festival. I took a few pictures with the camera phone. Here they are:

Dee on the Chariot Carousel

Dee on the Chariot Carousel... again

Dee and Maggie in the flying... um... fish?
(Dee's the barely visible one on the right.

We all had lots of fun and did all the kid-friendly stuff. Didn't sit and listen to as much music as we usually do because the kids weren't really interested in sitting still. I'm still dismayed by the lack of ability for these festivals to accept plastic.

You can usually use plastic to pay for your ticket to get in and most of the vendors will accept plastic, but you've got to buy these stupid non-refundable coupons to buy food and drink and they weren't accepting plastic for the coupons.

People have offered all kind of reasons for these festivals to use coupons for selling food. Like... Preventing pick pocketing because people don't have to carry a lot of cash around (total BS) or ... preventing the wage slaves and volunteers from steeling from the till (more plausible) or... making you buy extra coupons because you don't really know how much you're likely to spend and therefor leaving the festival with several unspendable and non-refundable coupons (highly likely).

Of course, all of these could be alleviated (from the consumer's standpoint) by having card swipers at the food places and letting people use their credit or debit cards to pay for the food.

Given how sensible this solution seems you're not likely to see it implemented any time soon.