Bruce wrote:
>Cheri wrote:
>>Bruce wrote:
>>>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>>>I write checks often. I don't like on-line banking.
>>>
>>> Are you one of these charming elderly people at the supermarket
>>> checkout?
>>>
>>> Finding check: 2 mins
>>> Realizing pen is needed for writing: 3 mins
>>> Talking to checkout person: 1 mins
>>> Finding pen between years old peppermints: 2 mins
>>> Writing on check: 5 mins
>>> Talking to checkout person: 2 mins
>>> Checking if amount is correct: 3 mins
>>> Saying goodbye: 2 mins
>>>
>>> It's alright. We all hope to get that old.
>>
>> And the number one, realizing that the goods actually have to be paid for so
>> waiting until everything is rung up to even start looking for the checkbook.
>
>Yes, it always comes as a surprise that they have to pay

That's no biggie... what's annoying is when someone is using a debit
card and it keeps being rejected, either because they used the wrong
PIN or there's no money in that account... some people have several
debit cards and they can't remember which PIN goes with which and
which has no funds... and it doesn't need to be old folks, could
easily be a young person, and airheads are equally distributed among
both sexes. Older people generally don't use debit cards, they
typically use cash or credit cards, very few older folks write checks
these days... it's typically young women with a couple of rugrats who
hold up the works, especially those with several kinds of food stamps.
Another thing that bothers me is no one needs to validate food stamps
but when I pay with a hundred dollar bill everyone needs to wait for a
manager to arrive to approve cash. The two times a year I buy a case
of beer I need to show my driver's license, and I'm probably old
enough to be the checkers great grandfather, in fact the last time I
asked her age and she said nineteen, she wasn't old enough to sell
beer, had to get a manager.