I've just been lambasted by DH and to a lesser extent, DS, that I expressed some rhetorical surprise that DS paid for a 45p item with a card rather than cash. And I mean lambasted.
I got dragged into an unnecessary argument and told my ideas were old fashioned and antiquated and I was acting like a pensioner. That it is preposterous to expect anybody to carry cash now or in the future and that transactions for as little as 1p should all be carried out by card. That it is unimaginable that somebody should have any coins or notes about their person. Imagine breaking a £1 coin and then having 50p and 5p in your pocket. Those coins and others will end up never being spent and they'll be lost to the economy forever. There are £billions in unspent cash sloshing around houses, sofas, bedside tables, bags, pockets etc destined never to be used again.
When 2 people double team you and you can't get a word in edgeways then you sit mutely and can't express yourself whatsoever. So I said nothing.
I felt they both overreacted and there was no need to verbally attack me in the way they did. I was told I was "wrong, wrong, wrong". Apparently DH had to step in to defend DS and stand up for him (DS is 20 and the most argumentative of all) when all I expressed was surprise at the use of a card for a small value item, not horror, not indignation.
I realise that the use of actual cash/card and the getting unnecessarily attacked over a fairly innocuous statement are actually two separate issues but as with so many things posted on MN things are rarely in isolation.
Just getting this off my chest...not really trying to achieve anything...