I need to get a visa for Madagascar. They don’t accept personal checks fr credit cards and instead want cashier checks or money orders. An MO costs $8 at the bank, $1.25 at the Post Office, or 70 cents at Wal-Mart. I went to Wal-Mart… albeit I just googled area prices and apparently Safeway grocery stores offer them for 59 cents. And 11 pennies spent is 11 pennies not saved. Not quite as pithy perhaps, but as true sentiment as Ben Fanklin would pronounce.
The paperwork is off to the Embassy of Madagascar. The Marathon awaits….