I’m paying for my lunch, and as I sometimes do, I pay with my credit card.
After a bit the waitron comes back to the table. She says “I’m sorry, the card wouldn’t swipe. Do you know how to work one of these?”
It was a credit card slip.
Let me make that clear: a Credit. Card. Slip. The kind with three parts (one for the bank, one for you, one for the merchant). I say that only to help you young’uns see the humor of the situation.
“Do you know how to work one of these?”
“Yes, from back before “swiping” was a word.”
She patiently explained to me where to put the tip amount and where to sign. She explained it as if, a couple minutes before, somebody had explained it to her.
It’s called Knucklebusting. you would laugh at how many young waitresses and waiters have no idea how to do it or what it is!
on the flip side I had a 60-ish yr old woman come through my store, and her hubby taught her how to use her debit card. Now she calls it her debi’s