It is quite rare that I would be writing about a situation in which I wish I used cash regularly. Occasionally I will moan about not being able to buy stuff at the markets or carboot sales, it frustrates me to high hell that sometimes I can’t buy a coffee somewhere small and independent instead of Starbucks or EAT – but it won’t be long before that isn’t the case anymore.
This, however, is something that can only happen with cash (as far as I know) and it is a crying shame that the more we move away from cash, the less this will be able to happen.
In Manchester today, a cash machine malfunctioned and started spewing out twice the money requested by its users! Brilliant! News spread fast when someone realised that it wasn’t actually recording the withdrawals either! Even more brilliant!
Now that is certainly a way to shed the ‘crunch’ blues!
Thanks to Crusty for the heads up.
Losing Face 