Many stores here have a minimum for using a card to buy stuff.
Charge or debit. Gift card is OK.
I've seen some people get all upset when they can't use their card to buy something small.
Market just got rid of books and magazines.
We now have only one book store on the whole island.
Schools no longer use books or have test on paper. All computer.
By moving towards a paperless society, I've noticed another disturbing side effect.
Kids in school cannot write.
Friends kids and grand kids all have handwriting of a child.
A few are now in collage.
Even their signature looks like a child's scribbling.
I'm guessing it won't be long before books and magazines will disapear.
Maybe even paper money will be gone.
Most cashier's these days don't know how to give change anymore.
Computer tells them how much to count out.
Everyone seems to have their whole life in a dumb phone.
My friends phone died and he lost everything.
Pictures, contacts, insurance card, appointments, birthdays, almost everything.
Gone, gone, gone.
They now have something called a cloud.
I wonder how long before someone hacks in and opens Pandora's box.
Anyone not know who Pandora is????