> > Usually at the checkout, when they say something like, "That's $44.94," I whip out some cash in one
> > hand and a credit card in the other and ask, "Paper or plastic?" If you time it right, the bag
> > boy just stands there with his mouth open.
>
> Hah. Wouldn't work in Australia, though, because the banknotes are plastic too.
>
> Pa"Plastic or plastic?"ul

Urk. Yeah, here too. They just replaced all the NZ banknotes with that yecchy plasticpaper stuff. I hate it. It doesn't *fold* properly. Don't these people *use* money themselves? How can you use money that doesn't even fold and crease properly? You try to fold it up and put it in your pocket and it just springs back out into a curve shape. AND it doesn't work in any of the automatic pay machines in the inner city parking lots. Which, yes, you only need to use when the human attendants are off duty for the night. Which also is the time of night when everything else is closed, so you can't get more money from anywhere except an automatic teller machine. Which - you guessed it - only dispense the new type of banknotes.

Brunnen-"facing the fact that sooner or later I'm going to have to get a credit card"G