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Happy New Year
dsi1 wrote:
> On 1/4/2016 11:30 AM, el mismo de siempre wrote:
>> dsi1 wrote:
>>> On 1/3/2016 11:29 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 11:29:56 AM UTC-10, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/3/2016 2:51 PM, graham wrote:
>>>>>> > On 03/01/2016 12:47 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>>> >> On 1/1/2016 11:50 AM, Gregory Morrow wrote:
>>>>>> >>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>>> You too, Leo, best wishes for 2016.
>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>> >>>> Got to start practicing writing the new year on checks, not that
>>>>>> >>>> I write many any more thanks to online banking.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> Was in the grocery line the other day, and someone was actually
>>>>>> >>> writing a *check*!
>>>>>> >> > They were middle - aged, not "old" ;-) Something I hadn't seen
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> >> ages,
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Just once in a while, you see that check come out. For some
>>>>>> reason
>>>>>> >> it's
>>>>>> >> usually when there's been some other holdup that makes you even
>>>>>> >> take note how someone's paying.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> > I've noticed that a large % of the elderly now pay by card.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I generally don't notice, so odds are they're paying by card here,
>>>>>> too. It took me a while, but I finally convinced my mother to
>>>>>> carry a credit card in case she gets into a jam. She still doesn't
>>>>>> use it. I haven't asked her how she pays for groceries.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> nancy
>>>>>
>>>>> I was surprised to see a small notice on the door of a local market
>>>>> chain
>>>>> saying they would no longer accept checks in 2016. OTOH, I don't see
>>>>> any
>>>>> horse and buggy's in their parking lot either so I guess it
>>>>> shouldn't be
>>>>> too surprising.
>>>>>
>>>>> Personally, I like payments in check because I don't have to pay the
>>>>> processing fees. Then again, I don't have lines of people in a
>>>>> hurry to
>>>>> fork over some dough and get the hell out.
>>>>
>>>> The supermarkets I use don't take checks either. I can't remember the
>>>> last
>>>> one I wrote out. I always use my debit card.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What I'd rather do is they give me the total and I blink my eyeball
>>> twice and the amount get credited to their account in .005 microseconds.
>>> That would be cool. In fact, I'd rather just fill my cart and walk out
>>> the door without interacting with any humans at all. This can be done
>>> with carts with built-in RFID scanners and NFC capabilities. Hopefully,
>>> we'll get that before I die. 
>>
>> Man, you have a heckuva bucket list!
>
> It will happen because it can happen!
Fair enough.
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