I’ve read many of Ayn Rand’s books and converted from a stingy consumer to someone who loves to pay for things I can not or don’t want to do. In this frame of mind, I pay Amy as a translator, putting my visual and lexiconic ideas into computerese. John paid her one day so on the next i couldn’t remember having done it, “Amy,” I asked, “Did you get paid yesterday?”
“Yes. In glow sticks!” she answered.
“He paid you the full amount in glow sticks?”
“No.” she laughed, “Instead of pennies. And he told me I can read by them although they’re small (1.5″ long).”
I was relieved because he once tried to pay a friend hundreds of dollars, IN CHANGE!  nancymauerman.com