Giving this this thread a bump right here. I'm pretty easy going and not a lot of shit pisses me off, but I can contribute something...
What I am about to post is not anything female related; want to fuck a bunch of girls? Well, then be prepared to deal with a little bit of bullshit, and accepting this should be the first step you take; if game were easy, everyone would do it.
Was this Beta?™
But what I will post is something immensely time-sucking and something I'm seeing more and more every day;
People debiting and crediting small purchases.
Never mind my issues with the credit system in general, or that it shows just how short-sighted people are these days, or that it rivals the student loan hustle in terms of creating debt slaves;
it's just a big damn time waster.
Today getting groceries there were three people in front of me; the first a young mother and a young kid with a taco kit, some rapini (or kale?), some apples, a chocolate bar and a magazine...debit (maybe $12?). The next a young dude with a few cases of pop and some cooked meats...credit (maybe $10?), and just in front of me an older guy with some fruits and vegetables, some bulk stuff, a French stick and a few other small items...debit (maybe $15?). Me with ten pounds of chicken, a small tub of Ben & Jerry's, a case of coke, a few peppers, some brown rice and a few cans of pasta sauce...cash (about $41). I was in line for over five minutes; I would have been out of there in two if everyone paid cash.
Taking and processing a credit or debit card takes 20 seconds to over a minute; taking my cash and giving me change takes ten seconds. I don't even know by the time I die how many years I'll have spent standing in line between jerkoffs buying $8 worth of shit on credit (according to
this page, the average American will spend
2-3 years over a lifetime standing in line...ouch), and honestly; I can understand crediting a big purchase, not everyone is comfortable walking around with 2g's in their pocket (et tu, G?), but I try to pay everything in cash (within reason, obviously); it's taken everywhere, it's quick and efficient and I don't want the big supercomputer that runs the credit system (no doubt with a feed directly into the government) knowing that I bought this at this place at this time in case they one day want to turn it on me.
Whenever I get paid I send some online to my bills, keeping a small chunk for emergencies and going to the ATM and pulling the rest in cash. I don't go to the grocery store or the liquor store to waste my time.