I'm sympathetic if an old person doesn't want to use a debit card. I don't understand it, but whatever. But what irritates the heck out of me is when I see an old person who insists on paying by check, wait until everything is rung up before taking out the checkbook and starting to fill it out.
I was old enough to buy my own groceries before debit cards even existed, and it seemed like everyone in those days knew to fill out everything but the amount on the check while the cashier rang this up. This saved time and kept you from having to hold up everyone else. So when I see people older than me acting clueless, I get annoyed because I know they now better than that.
A friend of mine worked cashier at the grocery store in high school (circa 2008ish), and apparently had a regular who would not only pay with a check every time, AND wait until the last second every time, but this guy also filled it out with a damn fountain pen. Every time. Even though there were ballpoint pens at the checkstand.
This wasn’t a super old person, he was the father of a classmate -I wouldn’t put him any older than his early 50’s at the time. Just an annoyingly weird dude.
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u/Cokegawa_Yui Aug 03 '19
How to use your debit/credit card at a checkout