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A report from our man in Grassington

Nov 22nd, 2007
by Dan.

Today I’ve been trying to make some headway into finding us somewhere to stay on our first night. What I really need is a accommodation booklet published by the Dales Way Society which is only available from tourist information centers in the Dales themselves. You can actually get it through mail order too, but the society only accept checks and the last time I actually owned a check book was in 1999. I’m all about the new millennium now baby. We may not have any jet cars or colonies on Mars, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to waste energy and ink writing on slips of paper in order to pay for stuff. A line has to be drawn somewhere, and I’m drawing it here.

So instead I drove one and a half hours to Grassington Tourist information Center.

And it’s closed.

Bugger.

Read the rest of the post over at the Dales Walk blog

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8 Comments on “A report from our man in Grassington”

  1. #1 CamiKaos
    on Nov 22nd, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    I have a checkbook. Do you know why?

    To pay my daughter’s tuition.

    They didn’t take cards. That’s just nuts right?

    Good luck with your accommodations.

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  2. #2 Oli
    on Nov 22nd, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    I don’t believe that you’ve drawn a line.
    I’d like to see a photo post of the line that you say you’ve drawn.

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  3. #3 Dan
    on Nov 22nd, 2007 at 6:58 pm

    Oli – That’s a foolish thing to say to a man struggling for blog topics during nablopomo.

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  4. #4 Bec
    on Nov 22nd, 2007 at 11:19 pm

    I found my cheque book during the move and the last time I wrote a cheque was in 1999… It must be a 20th century thing!

    Hang on…

    Are you seriously telling me a tourist information centre was closed in the middle of the week?!

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  5. #5 Sam
    on Nov 23rd, 2007 at 1:30 am

    What you need it a one man tent and a bit of fighting spirit!

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  6. #6 (un)relaxeddad
    on Nov 23rd, 2007 at 6:40 am

    I do still have a cheque book. But it generally takes me five attempts to write a cheque. Always has done. Well, they’re very complicated. And then there’s that funny thing my father always told me to write that I eventually found out was completely unnecessary and that now I can’t even remember. But there was definitely a thing. On a cheque.

    NaBloPoMo is siphoning away my brains. Hope your feet are ok.

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  7. #7 Linda
    on Nov 23rd, 2007 at 5:43 pm

    Hi Dan:

    Thanks so much for the lovely birthday wishes!!

    Happy holidays to you and yours!!

    Linda

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  8. #8 People in the Sun
    on Nov 23rd, 2007 at 8:30 pm

    If you drew a line, couldn’t you just write a check? You already had a pen in your hand.

    But I understand your pain. We have a checkbook with doggie pictures (ASPCA gets a little money from that), and it’s really just an attempt to make this Victorian relic “cute.” If God wanted us to write checks he wouldn’t have invented Bill gates and reverse engineering.

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