The Bluebonnet Cafe: Where Girlie and Mr. Pants learn a Lesson in Cash-Bearing

Sorry, folks.  I know I haven't posted in a while -- I've been leaving that up to the multi-talented Sr. Pants to take care of, while he's unemployed (briefly) and knocking about the house in his boxers.  Just know that I've been lurking.
Yesterday, Sunday, we actually dragged ourselves out of bed and packed ourselves into the car at 9 AM (not a typo).  We did this because we wanted pie.  Not just any pie, but the pie to be had at the Bluebonnet cafe, in Marble Falls, TX.   This seemed like a terrific idea (and it was, by gum -- their banana and peanut butter cream pies were totally awesome), but, being children of the digital age, it simply didn't occur to us that since we were visiting a small-town diner, mayhaps we should fill our wallets with some cash.  It came time to pay for our meal & pie, and Mr. Pants goes up to the register.  I see the helpful ladybehindthecounter point behind her, and the Mr. goes back and starts fiddling with something behind the cash register area.  I wait for him to come back to the table... nothing doing.  I poke at the leftover bits of pie for a minute, and look up, and he's motioning for me to come join him at the fiddly thing. 
Turns out, the Bluebonnet cafe doesn't take cards.  They have an ATM of sorts, which looks like one of those little card scanners they use at the mall... it had no slots for money to come out of.  Unfortunately, we never figured out how the thing dispensed cash, because it wouldn't take either of our cards. 
I've never been in that position before.  We'd just enjoyed a lovely meal, coffee, eggs, biscuits, and pie, and now we had no means of paying for it!  How freakin' embarassing!
The lovely owner gave us his business card and told us to write our name and address on the check... he said we could mail in a check or some cash when we got home.  I guess we were in a small town... in Austin, I'm pretty sure we'd still be washing dishes, no matter that the check's only $20.
We left and walked through the town until we found an ATM, which luckily accepted our cards so we could pay for our meal.
I'm so glad that worked out... what a nice guy for letting us pay like that!
Girlie

Bluebonnet Cafe
211 Highway 281
Marble Falls, TX
(830) 693-2344