Banks

I have drifted slowly away from cheques. Either the cash in my trouser
pocket or the plastic in my other trouser pocket is all I need. And this
is Essex don't forget, we get our cash from just doing business mate.

 

Jesus, do supermarkets still take cheques? If so, how much longer?

 

I got 15 bottles of wine in a rucksack and rode home.

Fucked the handling a bit, mind.

 

The will take anything. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the took euros
and dollars as well. At a slight premium obviously. It is almost a dead
cert bet that those around Dover do and Zlotties.

 

Apparently not.

A quick hunt around the net shows that none of Sainsburys, Tesco,
Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl or Netto take cheques anymore, if ever.

TOG must shop at Waitrose or, more likely, Iceland.

Even JLP have been trialling cheque-free stores.

 

Yes, so place lid on floor and remove rucksack. Pick the first item from
basket[1], scan it, the drop it into the rucksack and place rucksack on
the scales. Scan and add other items. Pay. Put on rucksack, pick up lid,
leave.

On the rare occasions that I shop by bike, I usually use the Quota. Lid &
gloves go in the left pannier. When I come out, laden with comestibles,
'tis but a moment to extract said lid & gloves, then stuff carrier bags
into both left and right panniers.



[1] I generally choose a heavy-ish first item on the not entirely
rational grounds that the checkout *might* complain about a serious
weight discrepancy).

 

He went on a thread swerve and was talking about getting cash. He wouldn't
go anywhere other than a bank for that. Those ATMs in petrol stations and
shopping centres can't be trusted.

 

<Genuinely Surprised>

Already??

I knew it was on the cards, what with the banks wanting to phase them out
formally and everything but didn't realise this was actually happening.


Fucking barstards, if I knew where on earth I put my chequebook so I could
find it easily if I ever needed it again I would go and find it and pick a
fight.

Cunts.

 

Oh, right. He's fucking weird. Or thinks it's 1970. Or both.

 

Three years ago.

The only thing I ever used a chequebook for was paying for the French
run. Fortunately he's handed that role over to someone more modern.

 

Colour me Darsy shaped but the absolutely unbreakable rule with my yerrat
is that the only time it ever makes contact with the floor is as a result
of an accident and for no other reason. It certainly doesn't rest there.
For a start it is most unhygienic. The floor is for beasts and babies.

 

It gets worse - very soon the cheque guarantee scheme comes to end.
Therefore you will not be able to present your multi-purpose cashpoint /
debit / cheque card to guarantee payment against your account when using
a cheque.

 

Cheques are completely obsolete. What on earth are you doing that
obliges you to use one

 

Compost.

It has to be either that or he loses his Good Life Novitiate status.

The real trick with them though will be finding an alternative way for
them to be used for repairing motorcycles.

 

My car mechanic refuses to buy one of those new-fangled card machines
and prefers cheques. He still has his company name stamp for them, too.

 

I still pay CC bills with them. As I don't use online banking, there
would be little other way. Queue in a bank or Post Office with pockets
full of cash, maybe.

 

So? They do clean the floor after you've gone, you know.

 

Direct debit?

 

What, apart from direct debit, or ringing them & giving them a debit
card number you mean?

 

I had a trolley full of shopping - 125 quids worth - in the boxes of
the Versys last year, with a 24 bag multi-pack of crisps on the tank
for the 4 mile journey home. I forgot I wasn't in the car as I was
walking through the aisles

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)