ERAU kids could just have mommy buy them into the left seat of a DAL widebody.

 

Yes, it was largely a British practice and was abolished for good reason around the start of the American revolution (but not soon enough to help the brits with that).

 

Like buying indulgences from the Vatican?

 

During the civil war you could pay someone to take your draft, it was called commutation and the federally set price was $300.

 

way cheaper to just get a bone spur diagnosis imo

 

The cab industry did it to themselves buy creating a need for Uber. Almost ever trip in a cab I have taken as been me making sure when I called for the cab that the company took my company credit card. When the cab showed up, the driver couldn’t speak English which made it very difficult for me to tell him where I wanted to go. En route, I knew enough about where we were going I knew my ten minute drive shouldn’t have been 20, or whatever... sometimes I’d see landmarks that I knew weren’t on my route. When we get to my destination, his credit card reader is broken and the fee is $42.50. All I’d have on me were 20s and he’d have no change.

Every god damned time. I can not describe my disdain for the cab industry.

I got to the point of refusing to take a cab for years. Airport shuttle, walk, or rent a car. Uber’s app approach solved every one of those problems. The fact it’s generally cheaper is just the cherry on top... I would pay more for an uber than I would a cab.

 

Or an asthma diagnosis.

 

Not a disqualification during the Civil War. You were most likely going to get shot and have the limb hacked off anyway.

 

Is it true that the soldiers would sprinkle gun powder on their open wounds? I read that they thought the powder had healing properties.

 

And light it on fire to cauterize the wound.