Oh My God!! I’m Old!!!
Frick 
Well, I finally turned twenty, and boy do I feel… hmmm… okay, so at the moment I feel exactly the same, but I’m sure I’ll throw my back out any second, and forget to take the torrent of medication I will soon surely need. What do you mean overly dramatic!?
So what has happened whilst I took the weekend off? Well, not a lot really, but I shall enlighten you on a few choice events, as follows…
First off, I bring you the not-supposed-to-be-funny-but-really-really-is news of a man dying in a cake eating contest (and no you anti-American Nazi, it was not in the US). I know this sounds completely made up, but you can check the BBC for proof! This is really bizarre, and although I highly doubt it was due to the actual cake itself, I would get ready for some nanny-state regulation regarding a limit being set on confectionery consumption being put in place very soon.
Next? Well, next comes news that the human race is evil. Maybe not in so many words mind, but the message is pretty clear to me. Can adults really be this blind as to the realities of childhood? Surely not. Maybe when they grew up everything was phosphorescence and dolphins and little kitty cats, but times change. Now bullying (and being bullied) is just part of reaching adulthood. Think of it as an initiation into reality. Think of it as learning about life. Think about it as anything you like, but please don’t get your knickers bunched up over it.
And last but not least today, I have a bone to pick with Mario Cacciottolo (awesome name by the way) and his editorial on the demise of cheques. He says that cashiers (which he refers to as shop assistants, derogatory anyone?) are dumb founded at the very sight of a cheque book, and continues, that cheque payments can take a very long time to complete. Well this simply isn’t true. I work on an ePOS system myself, and find that cheques are almost as fast as plastic transactions. Why? Well quite simply, you take away any element of interfacing with the customer! I no longer have to stand and wait for the customer to forget his PIN, remove his card too early, or get his card declined. I can do everything required, myself, and the only point at which the customer is involved is the signature. And although some still have trouble with this, on the whole there are few delays here.
But hey, don’t get me wrong, I want the cheque to die like the rest of the mob. It takes a lot more effort on my part that simply waiting for the customer to faff and is a much greater risk than taking the cash there and then. So die cheque, die!!
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