Agony is watching a Southerner try and use an ATM.

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Originally posted by: MaxDepth
Why do they have braile on the drive-through ATMs?

1. Because all the keys for the keypads are cast from the same molds, why make a second set just to have non-braille keys?

2. Because a blind person might be riding as someone's passenger. :p
 

BAMAVOO

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Speak the proper language or get the hell out!



I can see we are doomed to meet for a battle royale, you Candadian transplant!!!!!!







;)
 
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Originally posted by: BAMAVOO
Speak the proper language or get the hell out!



I can see we are doomed to meet for a battle royale, you Candadian transplant!!!!!!







;)

Don't make us burn down your summer cottage again. ;)

- M4H
 

You always have the option of shopping where you get good service!

If you want the cheapest price, you can't be surprised when it is not a pleasant shopping experience.
How is that relevant to an ATM? Are there banks that don't extend service to jackasses who can't use an atm?

The south is slow. Painfully slow.
 

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I'm some what more patient. I can handle people who take awhile to check out without rolling my eyes or giving off foul body language. I think it's sometimes inconsiderate to show little compassion for a dying breed.
 
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Originally posted by: Regs
I'm some what more patient. I can handle people who take awhile to check out without rolling my eyes or giving off foul body language. I think it's sometimes inconsiderate to show little compassion for a dieing bread.

What breads do you consider to be dying? Personally, I could give a flying fsck if rye bread died, I hate that crap.
 

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Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Originally posted by: Regs
I'm some what more patient. I can handle people who take awhile to check out without rolling my eyes or giving off foul body language. I think it's sometimes inconsiderate to show little compassion for a dieing bread.

What breads do you consider to be dying? Personally, I could give a flying fsck if rye bread died, I hate that crap.

Doh! Edit ^
 

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: yllus
The age of cheques is coming to a close. Get with the program people. You shouldn't be able to claim ignorance to the developments of the past century just because you're a freaking Civil War veteran.
Until I'd come to the US (aparently it's not so bad in some other states) i'd thought the use of cheques had already come to a close. Nobody in nova scotia in my recent memory has used a cheque to pay for anything in front of me. They use debit for the majority of transactions or credit card. The fact is almost all merchants in canada do not even accept cheques!

Wait... so they have money in Nova Scotia now??

Radical! :p
 

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Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Originally posted by: Regs
I'm some what more patient. I can handle people who take awhile to check out without rolling my eyes or giving off foul body language. I think it's sometimes inconsiderate to show little compassion for a dieing bread.

What breads do you consider to be dying? Personally, I could give a flying fsck if rye bread died, I hate that crap.
He means old slow stupid people, I think. However, plenty of the cheque users are also younger people too. It seems generally lower class people, since richer people have the credit (and/or brains) to have a debit card and/or credit card.

 

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Agony is watching a Southerner try and use an ATM.

Nah... agony is watching some try to form sentences here.

Agony is watching a Southerner try TO use an ATM.
 

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My dad still uses checks to pay the credit card bill. And cash is usually transacted for under $100 purchases - sometimes more when someone behind him looks like he's in a rush. Ever see someone pay for a hard drive with a huge wad of singles? I have. Some yuppie gabbing away on his brand newcamera phone with a G4 and monitor balanced perilously on top of his cart talking at the top of his voice about some "meeting" and "how he was going to be late because the guy in front of him is a moron"

Then we lurked outside to see what he drove. A giant Ford Excursion - and he still lashed the computer to the ROOF (Not enough interior room?), all the while chatting away on his phone.

Stupidity knows no bounds.
 

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Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Originally posted by: Regs
I'm some what more patient. I can handle people who take awhile to check out without rolling my eyes or giving off foul body language. I think it's sometimes inconsiderate to show little compassion for a dieing bread.

What breads do you consider to be dying? Personally, I could give a flying fsck if rye bread died, I hate that crap.

SINNER! BLASPHEMER!

 

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Originally posted by: labgeek
Agony is watching a Southerner try and use an ATM.

Nah... agony is watching some try to form sentences here.

Agony is watching a Southerner try TO use an ATM.
No, I meant what I said. In your version of the sentence the agony is beheld in their action of trying to use the ATM, with no mention of the agony of their actual use of it. However, for me the agony is doubly so because I feel it not only when they try to use the atm but also when they do in fact use the ATM.

I'll admit I could have done better with a comma "try, and use" :D
 

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Originally posted by: dabuddha
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: dabuddha
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: kranky
You always have the option of shopping where you get good service!

If you want the cheapest price, you can't be surprised when it is not a pleasant shopping experience.
Peoplse use cheques at all stores here! And banks don't screen customers for technical proficiency, so regardless of bank I'm still liable to be behind somebody who's never used an ATM before (or acts as if they've not).

Sometimes I prefer using checks because it gives me "evidence" that my payment was accepted.
One word: Plastic.

Oh I agree with you on that. I write maybe one or two checks per year these days. I just said that to correct your spelling of checks :p;)

that's not the correct spelling, that's the american spelling.
 

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: dabuddha
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: kranky
You always have the option of shopping where you get good service!

If you want the cheapest price, you can't be surprised when it is not a pleasant shopping experience.
Peoplse use cheques at all stores here! And banks don't screen customers for technical proficiency, so regardless of bank I'm still liable to be behind somebody who's never used an ATM before (or acts as if they've not).

Sometimes I prefer using checks because it gives me "evidence" that my payment was accepted.
One word: Plastic.

I try to stay away from plastiques as much as possible, but still fail horribly. *mumbles*damn canadians should learn how to spell right
 

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Originally posted by: MindStorm

I try to stay away from plastiques as much as possible, but still fail horribly. *mumbles*damn canadians should learn how to spell right
I was talking about plastic as in credit cards, not as in plastic explosive :)
 

Ausm

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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: labgeek
Agony is watching a Southerner try and use an ATM.

Nah... agony is watching some try to form sentences here.

Agony is watching a Southerner try TO use an ATM.

SIEG HEIL, MEIN GRÄMMÄR NAZI!!

- M4H

This place is full of the bastards....

Ausm
 

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Skoorb, your next mission is to go to a more rural Wal Mart (BTW, it's Wally World, not Wal Marts) on a Sunday morning and photograph the customers that look like extras from Deliverance.

Or you can simply rent the movie Deliverance & gain an insight to Southerners in your fair state.
 

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Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Or you can simply rent the movie Deliverance & gain an insight to Southerners in your fair state.

That's Georgia, this is Alabama!
 

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Originally posted by: aves2k
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Or you can simply rent the movie Deliverance & gain an insight to Southerners in your fair state.

That's Georgia, this is Alabama!

Hell, I thought it was Arkansas, you-all are related anyway;)

<-------Waves from Texas

I hate those self check out kiosks anyway, it's hard to use my 10% off coupons.