Popped out to a shop this AM. Nothing essential, but the store was strangely open.
Browsed the shelves, found wot I wanted and prepared to the counter. The nice lady scanned the item then looked with disgust at my hand holding a small assortments of notes and coin of the realm.
”We aren’t taking money. Is that a problem?” I thought about that and replied, “Hell no. And may I congratulate your store for helping out the elderly in this way during these dark days.”
I watched the nice lady closely as the lights slowly went out and her eyes became a little foggy. Then, rather quickly, she found her master switch and her lights lit-up again. “No, I mean you have to pay by card.”
And that was yet another first for me as it was that contactless thingy. Boy, is that scary or wot? Even as I was doing it – and it’s a blink of an eye operation – I was thinking I need to check Amazon for a lead lined card holder as I can just imagine all the bad boys, hanging about shop queues an’ such, with contactless card reading kit secreted about the voluminous folds of their hoodies, harvesting card data. Or do I need to get that foil hat out again?
Anyhoo, so there you go; softly, softly, killing off cash.
Quote; Joseph Addison.
“They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.”
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