LAZY F RANCH 
A Working Guest Ranch Adventure

Where YOU are one of the cowboys or cowgirls - 
right along with us! 
Clay Allen
P.O. Box 9
Smiley, Texas 78159
Business Mobile (24 Hours a Day)  210-391-6378

Why I Take PERSONAL CHECKS

A FRIENDLY EXPLANATION
Coming to this guest ranch or any guest ranch is NOT cheap. Heck, going to a hotel in any major city is NOT cheap. 

Guests, who would travel  across the state; across the nation; or across the world, most likely would NOT write me a hot check. Like most Texans, I would always believe your word is your bond, until you prove me wrong.

I have had ONE(1) hot check in 8 years and that was from young people on a honeymoon; were working off the first checking account they ever had; needed a room; and paid me back 2 months later with $50 to boot. My attitude was, they needed a honeymoon suite more than I needed money and, if they had never paid, so what!!?? I have been to war; did not sit in base camp; and, having survived that, realize most everything else is "small stuff."

A UNFRIENDLY EXPLANATION
In the early years of the Republic of Texas, the speed of a horse was the speed of communications; every town had a hotel(s) because 20 miles a day was about the limit of travel time; no one knew who you were; your word was your bond (or not); and hotels had no way of tracking you down to collect hot checks and promissory notes. 

The Hotel Owners Association had the Texas Legislature pass a law that made writing a hot check (even for $1) to a hotel or boarding house a FELONY. A Felony, back then, meant the Texas Rangers tracked you down and the term "Civil Rights" meant you made it to jail alive or mostly in one piece, if you were "civil" to the nice Rangers. 

Today it means the Texas Dept of Public Safety can put a felony arrest warrant against your driver's license (automatically transferred to your passport # and SSAN). When you use your driver's license (or passport) in an official location anywhere in the world (like an airport security or passport control point) you go to jail and do not collect $200.