Parents With Lofty Aspirations For Their Child

Back in the late 1980s, I worked in, um, not the best part of town. People would try to pay with checks that would bounce and stolen cards, so the owner put up a sign.

Sign: “IN GOD WE TRUST — ALL OTHERS PAY CASH.”

And he meant it; the only payment type we would take was cash. 

One day, I’m making the sandwiches and the owner is running the register. A guy comes in and sees the sign.

Customer: “Does that mean you trust me?”

He showed us his ID, and yes, his parents actually had named him “God”. 

He paid with cash.