WOKE The #1 Sign you are not keeping up with the times?
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223shootersc
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Yes, I do and get a 3% discount at my two favorite restaurants because of that fact!!!
patriotgal
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Saw a young woman freak out cause the customer ahead of her used "dirty cash" to pay for a purchase.
Great Northwet
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I've noticed it too, just paying with a Grant. They have trouble getting change from the drawers and this was at Rite-Aid.
meandk0610
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I was born in 71 but still remember how to dial one. One of my grandmothers was a switchboard operator and kept a rotary phone at her house until she actually moved into a retirement home. I think she just liked it. I found the sound of the dialing kind of soothing in a way. Slower, maybe calmer, times.
Great Northwet
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I talk to many students on the campus and it's important because they are ahead of us in small terms of banking. They don't use a bank the way we do. Most of the transactions in China seem to use some segment of We-Chat, or Tiktok, all of their transactions use their phones. They say the Elders still use cash but only because the don't understand or trust phones.
At the UW campus; cash stopped this year. Everything is Husky card account or credit card now. There used to be Pinkerton armored vehicles around the campus, but they are gone now. There is virtually no cash on the campus and it swells to nearly 80k people during the campus year everyday.
jed turtle
a brother in the Lord
ma Bell went out of business?
Great Northwet
Veteran Member
I was born in '62 and there was a pub that had one. I was just having a coke and a burger but it still took me 3 times to get it right. This was about 25 years ago.
Funny thing I notice on Campus is that the students can't tell the time on a clock. They use their phones to tell what time it is. "If the small pointer is at the 2, and the long pointer is at the 10 it might be 10 minutes to 2", and they are not sure if they got it right when they tell me....and these people are really smart!
Careful now. I know what year you were born and NEITHER of us is far from being an OLD FART. Don’t jinx it man.
Redleg
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I use checks for certain transactions, like paying my town taxes or buying a car for example. Some places will pass on any fees for electronic processing and that is why I still use checks. I doubt the school system even teaches how to write checks anymore.
coalcracker
Veteran Member
The two words that hide behind the question:
Independence.
Dependency.
The poor woke youth just can’t be adults, can they? They need Big Daddy Government to give them an allowance and to keep track of their spending; otherwise, they would have to learn Math.
Slaves, and they don’t even know it.
One time my daughter went on a date with a young man who had a fairly nice car. As we were talking about it, he said he had bought it used but was fortunate because he was able to get a 7 year loan to keep the monthly payments smaller…
…and you want to date my daughter!!!
Independence.
Dependency.
The poor woke youth just can’t be adults, can they? They need Big Daddy Government to give them an allowance and to keep track of their spending; otherwise, they would have to learn Math.
Slaves, and they don’t even know it.
One time my daughter went on a date with a young man who had a fairly nice car. As we were talking about it, he said he had bought it used but was fortunate because he was able to get a 7 year loan to keep the monthly payments smaller…
…and you want to date my daughter!!!
West
Senior
Speaking of checking accounts and what not.
Get this....we reconcile our checking account every month by hand and use a calculator granted. But use the form provided by our bank. Also we stack the statements and the copies of the checks that where wrote out and cashed. Plus the copies of deposit slips.
Keep the bankers honest.
Few months ago I did a job for a younger couple, after I fixed their problem and gave them a bill... they asked if I take bit coin? No. Can they use their debit or C.C. card? No. I take cash or check and a check is best.
They have a checking account but no checks. Weird. So accross the street from them was U.S. Post Office. So I suggested to them to go over there and use their debit card to buy a money order. They was astonished that was a option, and didn't even know about those new option money orders!
Get this....we reconcile our checking account every month by hand and use a calculator granted. But use the form provided by our bank. Also we stack the statements and the copies of the checks that where wrote out and cashed. Plus the copies of deposit slips.
Keep the bankers honest.
Few months ago I did a job for a younger couple, after I fixed their problem and gave them a bill... they asked if I take bit coin? No. Can they use their debit or C.C. card? No. I take cash or check and a check is best.
They have a checking account but no checks. Weird. So accross the street from them was U.S. Post Office. So I suggested to them to go over there and use their debit card to buy a money order. They was astonished that was a option, and didn't even know about those new option money orders!
Cag3db1rd
Paranoid Pagan
Funny story. I bought hubby a '95 GMC Sierra in 2013. It's standard. One night not long after we got it, some lil 'Yute decided to try to steal it. Hubby heard something outside, so, he looked out the window. He saw the 'Yute look in the window of the truck, exclaim, "$#!+," and walk away. He saw the shifter and couldn't do it. It's a theft deterrent.
Neither do I.
@Redleg said: "When I first moved here to rural northwest central Arkansas in 1977, there were still only 4-party phone lines available."
I was born in '77. My best friend in HS lived in Zena, OK, and she had a party line.
I keep having to read middle English to my son each night. They had some interesting turns of phrase.
But I'm only 45 and I pay in cash.
OMG I am so using "copralite" as my new insult word. I didn't even think of it as one when I first learned of it. I mean, how do they know it's fossilized poo of an ancient tribe that lived in this cave?
Border Collie Dad
Flat Earther
My #1 sign that I'm not keeping up with the times is that I didn't know what "TWD" was when Dennis posted it the other day
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
I don't ask for anything over a $20 at the bank any more. I take a $50 just about anywhere, the cashiers give me stink eye and reach for their markers like Old West gunslingers pulling big iron. The one good part about Biden's massive gas price inflation was that I could break a $100 without incident at any gas station. Which is not exactly great news. But like Mother Maybelle said, keep on the sunny side of life.
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
CaryC
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Yeah, we would need a cool off so make an excuse to run across street, and go in trailer.
I also may have misspoke. I didn't actually run the computers, as in attendance to the computers. There were key punch guys and an E5, and E6 that did that actual (back in the 80 column key punch card days ,is that a dangling chad?)running. My area was more in the software side of it as a Data Analyst. As in receiving the data and checking for errors. Then later I was on the front end, receiving the (what we called chicken scratching No. 2 pencil fill in the correct dot, fully) paper work from company clerks.
Neither end of the computers were AC'd.
But like yeah those things were cold, after being in the TX heat all day.
CaryC
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Guess we're illegals, then. Who knew, been here since the 1600's. LOL. (I'm really old)
Draw out cash every pay day for groceries, nick knacks, and eating out.
BTW at our local walmart, if you want to pay by check you don't need to do anything other than tear it out of your check book. hand to the clerk, they put it in some thingy, and then hand it back to you, still blank. But you've paid.
And since some of my insurance payments come so close to payday, I just call the company and give them a check over the phone, BUT you have to void that check, so you don't use it.
Also BTW lot's of places around here like mom and pop stores (the vet, greenhouses) charge you 3% of the bill to use a debit card. So cash and checks are making a come back. Meaning cheaper to use cash or check. You can check your receipt to see, if they did. Because like they don't tell you, they are doing it.
Just ordered some propane to be delivered in the next few days, going to be 460.00 at 3.29 a gallon, if I use a debit card they will add 3% to the cost. Cheaper to write a check, or cash. It was the same with a possible 1500.00 car fix, it was nice of the shade tree mechanic, to let me know in advance. Turns out it was only 97.00 but still I was prepared with the cash.
I've also had my debit card hacked three times, and never had a check been done that too. At least that is my experience.
CaryC
Has No Life - Lives on TB
It's called early (really early) onset Alzheimer's.
When you reach 65 and go for your "Heathy You" check up they make you draw a clock, with the hands in certain places. if you can't, you got it.
Dux
Veteran Member
No hablo ingles
Oh for the good old days. Dad would write out all the checks for utilities and then put them in the wrong envelopes and say that will give us 4 more days to get the money in the bank. Which would be when payday was only a few days away. I asked why and he said if we pay it late we get a late charge this way we don’t. He only did it once or twice a year usually after an emergency like unexpected car repair or major appliances going out.
bracketquant
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Never had a credit card or a debit card, and don't even know how to use them. Observing those that have them, there appears to be a common routine of moving the right hand forward then back, forward then back, repeated a few more times, followed by some mild cursing.
Tex88
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Why, looks exactly like the Irish living next door?
Tex88
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Don't remember when I last used the actual card instead of the phone. But I also don't remember when I last wore socks, so there is that.
PghPanther
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When I think of girls in pageants representing Ireland this more in line to what I think
the native stock should be representing that country..............
Not some Bantu import...............ugh! (Being Irish and it ticks me off when they pick minorities in a obvious defined demographic country.......or at least it used to be one)
Do you ever think a dot Indian should be Miss Sweden?........or a tall blond blue eyed woman as Miss India?
It takes (read this right) all the diversity out of the pageant when they have AA pageant contestants for given countries who carry a tradition of whom is its native stock should be representing their country.
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bracketquant
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The Beast will not be the Husky, but they're moving in the foretold direction.
Tex88
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You're completely missing what I'm saying. In certain places in the US, "them damn Irish are at it again" doesn't refer to a child of the Emerald Isle.
There are no “native Irish BIPOCs”
Terriannie
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This is the exact style of coin purse I pay for all my small purchases. I keep folded bills on one side, (lined up by denomination) and assorted coins on the other side.
When paying, if I don't have the exact amount including pennies I go over with a nickel or dime. Not to pat myself on the back but when that happens, I usually tell the cashier to keep the change.
Cag3db1rd
Paranoid Pagan
What's TWD?
I am of Irish stock as well. That pisses me off, too.
I have a wallet with a coin pouch as well. I have a divider in the bill compartment. I keep cash on one side and goldbacks on the other. I keep trying to use them. Ppl don't understand value.This is the exact style of coin purse I pay for all my small purchases. I keep folded bills on one side, (lined up by denomination) and assorted coins on the other side.
When paying, if I don't have the exact amount including pennies I go over with a nickel or dime. Not to pat myself on the back but when that happens, I usually tell the cashier to keep the change.
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Orion Commander
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Ah but do you know your ring? Long, two shorts, short long short, short short long, long long short? Eight party lines are fun. And some always knew their neighbors business.
Orion Commander
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I use electronic check for property tax. It costs me a 40¢ fee. While annoying it costs more to mail a check and still more to drive 10 miles to pay in person.
Tristan
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Meadowlark
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I was being facetious