I've got like 4 years left. Stop wasting them.

Elderly Man 2 minutes later: Spends 10 minutes writing a check

Places still accept cheques?
- No but some accept checks.
- In the US they're weirdly still popular. And not for big one-off purchases either, normal stores and restaurants take them. It's like going back in time three or four decades.
Is this still a thing? I worked at a grocery store about 10 years ago, and towards the end of my tenure, they stopped taking checks. I'd imagine other chains did too. I haven't seen anyone write one while I've been in a checkout line in forever.
- I worked at AutoZone 7 years ago, we had a scanner thing that'd just read the check numbers on the bottom and run it like a debit card without a pin.
  
  I'd tell people to not fill out the check, cause it doesn't matter at all, it didn't read it, and I give the check right back anyway, it could even be used again if the dorks would stop filling them out for no reason.
  
  Even after all my telling them before and while they filled them out, they'd be in such disbelief when I returned their check after 3 seconds. Some would even be angry for them wasting time filling it out when it didn't even matter. Like guy I told you multiple times, how could anyone get upset at me for that.
- In the UK they died with the cheque guarantee card.
  
  I had to write software to print cheques on a slip printer about 20 years back. Had nobody ask for them since. I took that function away by accident a few years ago and nobody complained. They still make the printers, but they don't get used for cheques. More for prescriptions and other things that just need a small slip of paper that can't be trivially copied by a crackhead.
- I worked at an Albertsons a couple years back for a summer and we still took checks. And there were definitely people who used them, although more often I think it was people who were using some kind of unemployment or other social programs. But yeah whenever it wasn't a check like that it was an older person who would write the check out once they saw the total.
Last time I was in the US, I was at a convenience store with a quick checkout - max 5 items. Then I saw that a couple was paying by check. Writing the check scanning it and verifying etc. took about 10 times as long as scanning the wares. Is this still a normal interaction?
- It's normal for a check transaction to take that long; it's hasn't been normal for people to be paying by check since the late 2000's, if not sooner.
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Meanwhile, younger folks audibly exhale when you take the extra 10 seconds to put your cash change back in your wallet.

Can't win em all.

Shit, I still see them pull out checkbooks.
- It honestly surprises me that many merchants still accept checks, given that they won't verify immediately.
- a check may gain some time for those who may need it. Transaction is not instantaneous. It may take a week or longer.
  
  use cash. don't leave traces.
The middle aged people tap their card on the other lane and shake their heads at both parties.
Because you do that on your own time, not at the cashier. Do it while you're walking out.
- I have two hands. One is occupied by my wallet that I just took the cash out of. The other is occupied by the change that was just handed back to me. Which hand am I supposed to push the cart or carry my stuff with? Just be patient for a moment.
- Nah, I'll do it right when the cashier hands it back to me at the check stand before I grab all of my stuff and then walk out so I'm not fumbling shit all over the walkway and impeding even more people. 10 seconds isn't going to kill you.

Now he knows how it feels. Love just trying to get a donut on my way to work and some old lady has 2 months worth of groceries at 6am and wants to pay with a check. And there's one lane open.

Ronald Reagan? The actor? Ha! Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady?

And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury!

That old timer had been waiting decades to use that line.

Just pay with a card fucko

That requires me to carry a wallet.
- Do what I do-
- Yeah so in the civilized world we prefer to carry our health card and a piece of ID anyway, but if you live in the States the first one doesn't exist and... Well... The second one doesn't really exist either...
  
  But you know, a bank card takes way less space than a cellphone in your pockets, just saying.

Future boy.
I'm no future boy.
'Cause I think I'm here to stay.
What's the future for.
If I don't get more than today?
I'm no future boy.

Future boyb had 4 years left, before he becomes elderly man

If you had a basket before you got to checkout, don’t dispose of it at the end of the line, BECAUSE YOU OBVIOUSLY WILL NEED IT WHEN WALKING OUT YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKER! Stop wasting my time trying to juggle 10 items without a basket YOU FUCKING MORON!

(I’m fine.)

What if I didn't get a basket before I got to checkout, but I barely juggled my 10 items successfully and then once it's all scanned I can't figure out how to juggle them again?

(I'm sorry)
- There’s a pile of basket near the counter left there by the people I ranted about.
You can take the baskets out of the store where you live? 😳 That's what bags are for.
Are people not taking rucksacks to the shop yet? I hardly thought myself a genius when I worked it out at least ten years ago.
- Two reasons against this:
  
  Usually people visit shops by car, without a backpack – at least where I live.
  
  Putting stuff in your backpack may require some more careful planning than just throwing it back into the basket temporarily, before you pack your backpack for real at the packing table. People do do that, blocking the end of the checkout. If the cashier doesn’t wait, you need to be careful not to have your items mixed up with the previous customer’s.
- Plenty of people live in places in the U.S. where they don't let you carry backpacks around in stores.