#46

Things I’ll regularly withdraw cash for:

  • The gym (I go to a small one that’s just a guy’s converted garage - he’s not set up to take payment by card/direct debit. I suppose I could use bank transfer, but I suspect he isn’t declaring a lot of his income so prefers cash.)
  • The pub
  • If I’m going out for a meal, it’s always annoying when people want to split the bill between loads of cards
  • Just having cash for general usage, e.g. getting lunch out of a roll shop, or going to the newsagents, etc.
#47

Same (apart from the gym).

There are still a lot of restaurants that are cash only too.

#48

this one really annoys me

#49

Can’t stand it. Worst is always a work colleagues lunch out. Some people piss off early for a meeting and leave a bit of cash, someone else didn’t have a beer so wants to pay less, 14 cards to go through… URGH.

“Who is paying on the HSBC card? HSBC card? Anyone?”

#50

I know I’m moving into general gripe territory but people who order a soft drink and then act as if it doesn’t cost anything and get all defensive when the bill comes. Like a coke costs pretty much the same as a beer you dicks

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#51

“Well, no, it’s a pound cheaper, so if I divide that by 14, versus what the beer…”

JUST HAVE A F**KING BEER THEN!

#52

^This plus it makes it more difficult to have £30 cash on you, and your not a real man unless you have £30 cash on you at all times
(according to a Bricklane newsagent)

#53

And I for one will not have my real man status jeopardized in order for Link to make an extra buck

#54

I’m going to withdraw my fortune now and be done with it, cunts.

#55

stupid HSBC, not putting names on cards.

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#56

Probably visit a cash point maybe once every month to 6 weeks, get £20 out and that’ll last me. Only time I ever nibble away at it is when I’m at work, as our canteen is the last place on Earth where you can’t pay by card.

We also keep £30 in a box under the sofa for emergency takeaways :smiley:

#57

You know very well the serving staff never use that. They’ll stand there holding the card up while the table yaps away, ignoring them. Same as when they bring the food over.

#58

Sounds like what we need here is a regime of better staff training and a politer society.

#59

Or we just go to Nandos.

#60

OOFT! cheeky talk.

#61

this is an interesting one, begging for money becoming impossible will probably some have strange consequences

#62

So, any observations about the ubiquity of cashless transactions in Scandinavia? In Finland and Iceland they seem to get pissed off if anyone tries to use cash.

NB This is the only observation I have.

#63

Never had this problem in either country, except for at an unmanned pay-at-pump petrol station in Iceland (and to be fair, I wouldn’t expect to pay with cash in that situation).

In fairness, I was in a Ski Resort only in Finland, so possibly atypical experience there.

#64

I once had a massive argument with someone in Byron Burger in Kensington because they had paid £5 less for their meal because they didn’t have a beer - they had a milkshake that actually cost 50p more than the beer I was drinking.

He got so angry that he stormed off when we left the restaurant (all the way back to Woking on his own)

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#65

He was probably rushing from all that sugar.