Pet Peeves

[Ollkiller]

A cashless society can go fuck itself.

[Eoin McLove]

I haven't carried cash in a couple of years now. It's definitely more convenient to tap your card. But that's not to say it's better...

[Giggles]

Same with the sourpussed auld fucker in the filling station  when I paid cash for petrol a few days ago. 'Better with card my friend, I have to unlock the till now'

This is it. I'm pretty sure the people in my local shop think I'm a drug dealer.

Friends whinging at me because I'm not on Revolut, when I go out of my way to grab gig tickets for them. Go to an atm and get my money you cunts. 2 years ago you would thank me, now you whinge because it's an inconvenience.

[Carnage]

Every other fucker seems to be on Revolut now. Not for me. I'm sure it's great if you're an international jetsetter. I'm not.

[Emphyrio]

My current account pays a few cent for all card transactions which covers well over my monthly charges so I have really become accustomed to cashless. I notoriously never have cash on me but the only time I notice is if I'm leaving a coupla quid tip. Although I have Revolut the only time I use it is for collections at work.

[son of the Morrigan]

Paid over three grand in cash for stuff in the co-op there myself the other day, when I put it on the counter (all fifties , neatly folded into thousands) yer man looked at it like I had dropped a steaming pile of my own shite in front of him.
" Ya don't get many lads paying with cash these days", says he, "Its all card now, you'r behind the times".
"Yeah, there's a lot of fucking morons knocking around alright", says I, " I'd say you'r a card man yourself are ya?".
"Oh yeah, I haven't used cash in years", he proudly proclaimed, totally oblivious to the fact I was after calling him a fucking moron.
Delightful.

[Slaughterday]

It's a well known fact that pints taste better when paid for in cash. Especially when most of the pubs here still charge less than a fiver for Guinness. Card payments on a sesh are a fucking disaster.

[astfgyl]

When I'm going for a few scoops I bring what I'm willing to spend in cash because I can't keep track of shit once I start feeling the burn

[StoutAndAle]

I was in one of my regular haunts over the bank holiday.

I say "regular" - I've been there twice post-Covid but in the before times I would have been found using the kinetic motion of my head to take me out through the front door at closing time.

Anyway - I ordered a round and yer man arrived back with the card machine. Meanwhile I had taken a €50 note out of my wallet.

"Oh... you're paying cash" he says - like I'm after handing him a post-Guinness/curry chips damaged wad of toilet paper.

"Yeah" says I.

"Not really the done thing in here anymore." he says getting my change.

"How does that work with the tip jar there so?" I said dropping a few quid into a pint glass on the counter with a few coins and a fiver in it.

"It doesn't."

[Emphyrio]

I'd be annoyed if there was a bit of attitude re accepting cash. Crazy that businesses are at it. My local Chinese doesn't take card. That also annoys me.

[open face surgery]

Ya, the best one close to me doesn't either. I feel like such a cunt not having money for a tip whenever I get a takeaway delivered.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I'd be annoyed if there was a bit of attitude re accepting cash. Crazy that businesses are at it.

Boss in Golden Discs in Bray, when I worked there around 20 years ago, was already wishing everyone would just use Laser so that he didn't have to have the hassle of cash. And he was an auld fella! He'd have been in a minority back then, and prob cos he ran an online Irish music shop too and found that handier, but surely not surprising COVID pushed things to a head. Places here, like the tobacconist, who always used to have minimum spend amounts for credit card, they all seem to have gone now. Every time I pay for some single item at the supermarket by card, I still can't shake the image of the Dude paying for his bottle of milk by cheque.

[Carnage]

Our local corner shop has stopped doing prepay for ESB, pain in the hole having to go into town for it now. Still prefer it to having bills come in every coupla months though.

[Necro Red]

I went to pay for stuff in woodies with cash. I had the exact amount for it which included 5 and 1 cent coins. The young lad said he couldn't accept them as they are not in circulation. We argued, he called a manager who didn't appear before I told the young lad I'm heading off as I've paid the right amount. Held up a big queue of people and all. Absolute idiot of a lad!

[StoutAndAle]

I went to pay for stuff in woodies with cash. I had the exact amount for it which included 5 and 1 cent coins. The young lad said he couldn't accept them as they are not in circulation.

You should have screamed in your best Samuel L. Jackson voice "Take this legal tender or I'll cut off YOUR circulation, muthafucka!!!"

Then taken your Ronseal Shed Paint & gardening gloves and left.