Boomers please take note

[Crushingdandelions]

First sign you're of a certain age...you always pay in cash and count out every last frickin' bit of change no matter how big the queue is behind you.

Just don't? Use a card please. I don't want to count out your 5p pieces.

Also - why do you need a receipt when you have bought 2 items worth £1.49?

Ageism aside, what difference does it make to you how people choose to pay for their stuff? Presumably you’re on a fixed wage, as opposed to your livelihood depending on being obliged to sell as much as possible. So, I dunno, just do your job?

Edited to say I’ve just realised that similar has been said above!

Oh that's such a pain. Then they have to close the app and reopen it and keep trying.

Does them paying in cash and asking for a receipt mean you will have to work longer hours? Or are you just wanting them to hurry up so you can spend time stood around doing no work?

First post nails it as usual.

What a horrible, prejudiced, stereotyping OP!

I'm 67 and I know no-one who is as described. Neither I nor my friends do any of those things.

I'm sorry, OP, but you really need to read back your post and think about a) your prejudices and general attitude to other people and b) consider an anger-management course of some kind.

Don’t be mean and ageist.

I’m 30 and sometimes use cash :) I have a weird knack for finding it all over the place - floors, cash trays, shop shelves. I’ve found about £6 this month so far.

I’m a Boomer. I never have cash.

Cautionary tale here - I always carry cash. Recently went to a eating place where the till wasn't working, cash did very nicely for me whilst others had to leave and go elsewhere. Electronic money relies on electricity and presumably internet.

Agreed. ^

Rude. That is all.

Editing to say YOU are rude, not the "boomers".

Well aren't you just delightful.

Yes this thread has got me thinking about old currency. I loved a sixpence. I used to get a ten shilling postal order from my Aunt and Uncle on my birthday. I remember when it changed to a 50p postal order. No postal orders now. What about luncheon vouchers? Do they still exist? Anyway @Crushingdandelions you are just on a windup.

Let’s bring back the half pence 😂

That doesn't stop you from being an ageist arsehole, it just means you've internalised it. There are misogynist women and homophobic gay men, what makes you think being 63 means you can't look down on older people just because you are one?

And, at 63 you're barely a boomer, scraping in at the tail-end. The bulk of boomers will be 70+. You hit adulthood in the 1980s when times were a damned sight better than the 1960s and 1970s.

I'm not a boomer...I get a receipt in case the product is faulty.

Actually I'm a boomer and I'm in my early 60s 😁

I'm 68, never used cash and avoid all those "cash only" places.
If you were truly a Boomer, you'd glory in the beauty of someone giving you a £5 note and 63 pence to pay for a £2.63 bill.
I definitely used to do this in the days when I paid cash. Comes from working in a busy corner shop in my teens, before digital, when I had to add up all the shopping items in my head and calculate the change.

😂sounds like a campaign

I'm not old enough for previous coins but I did find an old sixpence in the garden when I was digging. House is from 1926, the sixpence is from just after ww2. I love that the house was built pre - ww2, coin just after ww2, and that it's just been sitting there in the soil! I want to know who's it was, what they did, how they dropped it etc etc...

This!!! OP obviously has a miserable life that they let petty stuff like that bother them.

If you always pay with a tenner, you will always get change. What are you supposed to do with that if you aren’t allowed to pay for things? If you work at a till, it’s your job to take payment however the customer chooses.

If you are going to continue to insist on using the insulting term 'boomers' to describe those of us of a certain age, then I'm sure you won't mind if we start to describe you by using the term: 'arseholes'.

Spiteful bollocks. My boomer parents don’t use cash and haven’t for years. They are more tech savvy than most Gen Z.

If you want to whine about being delayed in a supermarket, what about those people who let their toddlers put the shopping through the self checkout at peak times when there are queues?

But no, you just want to post something which makes you look rather dim.

I'm pretty sure it's not boomers who count out their small change at the till, but their parents. You won't have to put up with them for too much longer.

It doesn't mean this thread isn't ageist and unpleasant.

BTW I'm 70 and rarely pay cash.