Comments on: I Heart Western Union http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/i-heart-western-union/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:11:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Hieronymus Braintree http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/i-heart-western-union/#comment-4410 Hieronymus Braintree Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:48:08 +0000 http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/i-heart-western-union/#comment-4410 At least part of Western Union's success, despite its high rates, is due the monopoly it has with some of our nation's finest prisons. I have a lady friend with an interesting personality and a drinking problem living in Florida who drove through one too many red lights with a buzz on and found herself a guest of Broward County whereupon she was offered almost as many opportunities to experiment with lesbianism as she was to find Christ. I sent her a few bucks every now and then for the commissary so she could have her smokes and an occasionally candy bar to carve into the shape of a gun and had to do it by Western Union which charged me, if memory serves, the outlandish price of nineteen and change for each transaction. That figure may be a little high, but allow me to assure you that it had to have been at least somewhat impressive as I do remember it hurting. Please don't mention this connection to Lou Dobbs. At least part of Western Union’s success, despite its high rates, is due the monopoly it has with some of our nation’s finest prisons. I have a lady friend with an interesting personality and a drinking problem living in Florida who drove through one too many red lights with a buzz on and found herself a guest of Broward County whereupon she was offered almost as many opportunities to experiment with lesbianism as she was to find Christ. I sent her a few bucks every now and then for the commissary so she could have her smokes and an occasionally candy bar to carve into the shape of a gun and had to do it by Western Union which charged me, if memory serves, the outlandish price of nineteen and change for each transaction. That figure may be a little high, but allow me to assure you that it had to have been at least somewhat impressive as I do remember it hurting.

Please don’t mention this connection to Lou Dobbs.

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