Is cashless being forced on us?

[keith with the teef]

I was @ kew gardens yesterday. Great stuff if you like the green fingers thing.

I guess given the options then yesterday I was forced to use cash less @ the chicken dinners bar.

Yep, options considerd, cashless and it hurt when I was told cashless payment only. 🙁

But the service was good and the chicken even better. 🙂

 

[Richard]

Steve, I guess we are all as guilty as each other of not using cash for petrol. I first use cashless means back in the 1960s when cheque payment became possible. Certainly its various cashless forms have usually increased the ease and happily, like you, I have not been caught out by the various problems that have been happening this summer. No one is pushing to have the cashless option withdrawn, I am only saying that options up to and including cash are something I like on my side. I would be mighty peeved if a filling station several hundred miles away from home asked me to pop back later to pay as their system was having a rest day. It is not such a likely current situation these days as both of my parents are dead and their house has been sold; but at one time I was a more frequent traveller. Happily the systems were off line ones then, more store and forward not instant success or failure as now.

I trust that Keith was advised up front about Kew Gardens limited payment options, though it was not clear if it was bonk-and-go only or one of the more traditional methods of card use. I have not been there since probably the 1950s when it was cash only.

[Bob Williams]

Today we went to Sutton on Sea, our usual Beach haunt and so much nicer than nearby Mablethorpe. It was Beach Hut Day: stalls of all kinds, a very good Country Rock band called Music Box. Then this appeared, initially in our ears, then in the sky:

Made 5 passes, aerobatics, several Victory Rolls and disappeared inland, either for another venue or home to RAF Coningsby and the BBMF. My fillings rattled, so I know it was a type with a Griffon engine. Looking at the wing shape, probably a PR XIX.

Stalls and band:

S on S has some very good days and is a lovely, old fashioned resort.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

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