There are very few things these days that are helping our demoralized economy.  Some students have been living on a gravy train with biscuit wheels throughout their college career [for anyone who caught that Ernie McCracken line from Kingpin, I commend you].  Anyway, most college students never had to solve an ‘insufficient funds’ problem themselves.  Relief was always a phone call home to eliminate that red number on your Bank of America statement.  Nonetheless, as our country tip toes economic destitution, parents might be asking their frivolous son or daughter to limit the spending.  This turmoil presents new questions to the average student.  They are being presented with new sets of choices that they had previously never thought about.  Financial obligations include school supplies, food, and board.  Thus, question then presents itself, “if we’re broke, how do we drink?”

 

Previously, we’ve always been able to have our cake and eat it too.  There are obvious ways to drink without having any money.  For example, the deliberate misuse of a credit card.  Let’s just say that it’s no longer just for emergencies.  Also effective, is the abuse of a gas card.  The seasoned veteran knows that the gas card also works inside the convenient store.  The best part about the purchase is that it shows up on the billing statement as ‘groceries’.  Finally, the granddaddy of them all, the “Dollar You Call It.”  Its name is exactly its function.  For some, “The Dollar You Call It” is a myth but for others, a way of life.  For spacing purposes, the “Dollar You Call It” will now be referenced as ‘DYCs’.