A question

[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

Just something I was wondering...

Does the whole "Put a penny in your bank account in modern times, eat like a king here at the end" work? Is that a viable way of people dealing with tabs?

Comments

[onehoopyprefect]

According to the Guide, "this is, of course, impossible."

[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

But we do nine impossible things before breakfast

[undignified]

Only nine?

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

It gets up to 42 before Happy Hour.

[empath-wiggin.livejournal.com]

I thought it was nineteen. Tells you what I know.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

No, no -- nineteen is for the lunch specials.

[saint-aequitas.livejournal.com]

Forgive me if I'm misremembering, but I think that's how Asar-Suti's mun has been playing it.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly, that is how I have been playing it.

As this financial device is canon Milliways canon (=Hitchhiker's), I supposed that it was viable.

And nobody ever protested, so I suppose it works.

On the other hand, the Guide also suggests you can do it retroactively; that is, if you return to your time, you can start such an account that will pay your Milliways tab, if I remember correctly. That is even more complicated, and makes your brain break even more, so I'm not doing it to myself or my purple Dark God.

[stilljustandrew]

That's how Andrew's been covering his tab. One of the first things he did when he got home was to start his Milliways-tab bank account.