‘I haven’t intentionally carried any cash for five years, don’t even own a wallet, do you really not have a card reader, I don’t mind making them double 99s’Great, two 99s and £50 cashback please, so we can rent a couple of deckchairs – with some fivers if you’ve got some, can you believe the chair guy won’t take a card, and the chip shop won’t take them for anything under five quid? OK just 20 in cash would be a life-saver if you’re short? What? God, it’s like being in Greece or something. Seriously, I’m sorry, I haven’t intentionally carried any cash for five years, don’t even own a wallet, do you really not have a card reader, I don’t mind making them double 99s. Wouldn’t it save time, when you’ve got a queue of 20 people? God, here we go again – sorry, anybody here got any cash they could lend me? For the ice-creams, just so I don’t disappoint the kids – I’ll pay you back obviously, thanks mate, you know in Denmark people would not believe this was happening?So that’s three quid I owe you, now let me have your address – no, no I insist, trust me this is always happening, seriously, are you sure, well that’s incredibly generous, do the same for you one day haha – can you believe he hasn’t got a card reader, in an ice-cream van? Course that’s another reason everyone’s giving up cash, you know the average bank note contains 26,000 potentially harmful bacteria and I’m not seeing any hand sanitiser. Continue reading...
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