[Important Poll] Do you carry cash?

[Josquius]

I get a week's worth out at a time so I don't overspend. I am teh poor.

I want to punch the students round where I work who use a card to buy a single sandwich or a pint.

These people paying on their card at a busy bar anger me greatly.
Was a hallmark of the Stockholm rahs at uni.

[DGuller]

... Norgy, are you planning a world tour funded by mugging languishites?

Actually, I have this friend from Eastern Europe...

The reason I came up with the poll, was that a neighbour dropped by yesterday evening and asked for a thousand NOK in cash for the bills we've been racking up redecorating. Unsurprisingly, I had more than enough cash at hand, since I routinely withdraw a certain amount each week, stash most of it in a drawer and carry about a 1000 (a bit more than 100 pounds/Euros and a bit less than 200 dollars) on me. A few years back, I'd never had that kind of cash on me, and I was wondering if it was due to oldmaningitis on my part.

Now that I think about it, I do carry cash when I go play poker.  It's about $500 if it's a home game, and several times that amount if it's in Atlantic City.  I've had many more good days than bad days in the last year or two playing poker, so I slowly had cash piling up in my desk drawer.  Now that I'm moving out and cleaning out, it turns out that I managed to pile up about $11,000 in cash.    I think it's time to deposit some of it.

[Syt]

I carry cash for small purchases or lunch (restaurants usually prefer cash), but most of my shopping is by card.

[katmai]

Usually carry $30-50 on me. If on location and payed per diem have that amount on me.

[Norgy]

You get paid in dead South Vietnamese presidents? War's over man. Let it go.

[Habbaku]

I want to punch the students round where I work who use a card to buy a single sandwich or a pint.

Why?  Cards are faster and easier.

[Viking]

I carry enough money for two bus rides.

[Iormlund]

I only use cards to buy on the Net or fill up the tank. Bills go directly to a bank account. Day to day stuff I pay with cash.

[Josquius]

I want to punch the students round where I work who use a card to buy a single sandwich or a pint.

Why?  Cards are faster and easier.

Generally not.  Its not like an oyster card, scan and go, there's the computer working and checking the card, the entering the validation (whether it be a pin or signature), the  checking that, etc....
Money tend to come out a lot quicker.

[Habbaku]

Maybe in the UK.  In a standard store in the USA, I swipe my card, the cashier hits a button and the transaction is over in seconds.

[The Brain]

Maybe in the UK.  In a standard store in the USA, I swipe my card, the cashier hits a button and the transaction is over in seconds.

America is a country where security is a dirty word.

[Fate]

I want to punch the students round where I work who use a card to buy a single sandwich or a pint.

Why?  Cards are faster and easier.

Generally not.  Its not like an oyster card, scan and go, there's the computer working and checking the card, the entering the validation (whether it be a pin or signature), the  checking that, etc....
Money tend to come out a lot quicker.

Eh, no. Swipe and done.

[dps]

I rarely carry cash anymore.

[Ed Anger]

I carry cash and I carry a gun. No worries.

[FunkMonk]

This thread reminds me of the time asshole English hackers were using my credit card number in Tescos across the island.

Fuck.