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In reply to the discussion: Just a reminder that we are all on the same team and why. [View all]DFW
(60,158 posts)First off, good for you for just being HUMAN, unlike the simian behind you.
My wife was in a small store while we were in the States last summer. The electronics in their credit card machine had broken down, and they could only take cash. My wife and I both HATE credit cards, having seen here how vulnerable a society becomes when it depends wholly on electronics and computers to control everything. A woman in front of her wanted to buy some formula for her baby for $5 and had only a credit card. Not even $5 in cash. Thoroughly Modern Millie in the flesh. It was a Sunday on Cape Cod, and banks are not every ten feet like they are in a city. She started panicking, and my wife, whose English is not perfect, but certainly enough to have understood what was going on, paid the $5 for the woman who thanked her profusely. No one else even spoke up, though. Far less encouraging than your story!