The following is an e-mail I sent to accounting, with only the obvious redactions:
At Mustelid Falls the last couple of weeks we have been
buying fuel at a place that officially closes at 6 p.m. but we kept getting the
fueller to stay late or come back and fuel us later. There was no formal
callout procedure, so she didn’t have a way to add a fee to the fuel
bill, so I gave her some cash, the cheapest callout fee ever, really, less than
$10 a day but it made the difference between treating someone badly and having
them feel respected.
This is only about the third sketchiest receipt I’ve ever
submitted at Our Company, and it probably allowed us to bill several more hours to Customer Company than we would otherwise, so well worth it.You’ll see the expense form on your desk.
The sketchiest ever was either a fuel receipt for over $800 cash, written on a Super-8 scratchpad by the third-in-command of the local flying club, or any of a number totally formal government liquor store receipts for cases of beer that the accountant has to take my word for that I’ve exchanged for goods or services.
