If you’ve watched TV in the past 3 months I’m sure you’ve seen the little one minute long visa check card commercials where everyone zips through the food service lines like it’s some Broadway musical.  Pick your food, spin, get your pudding cup, pirouette, proceed to the check out and waive your magical visa check card.  The dance continues until some dolt decide, “oh I’m going to pay with cash…”

OH NOES!!!

The person working the register has to make change! Thus halting the beautiful escapde that the visa check card has allowed us all to be a part of.  Damn you 46 year old man in your brown v-neck sweater for using your actual currency!

Actually, I dont mind the people that use cash.  I mean it is “legal tender for all debts public or private” I’m pretty sure your check card doesn’t say that on it.  But alas, that’s not what is bugging me.  What gets me is the people (generally about two to three generations older than myself) that still rely on checks for every single transaction.  Honestly checks were great 20 years ago when you’d buy a hundred and nine dollars in groceries or have to pay your utility bill, but not today when you bought a 9 pack of Charmin, some silk roses, a new pad stationary that says “From the mind of”, and a hot glue gun.  And IF you’re going to use a check, the least you could do is fill out the date, store name,  fill in the little memo line listing every little item you happened to buy at K-mart that day, and sign it while you’re being rung up.  I mean I am going to have to wait two minutes for you to write out the amount and figure out if the word sixty has an E before the Y or not.  Then I get to wait for the person running the register ID you because your phone number isn’t current, and then they have to force feed your check through the fax machine mechanism where it sucks it in then spits it back out.

My point is, please use your visa check card, or cash I really don’t care.  Just don’t make me wait while you try and master writing in cursive.

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