Maybe if we had a fucking standard for the where the fuck the tap to pay is. We all knew the swype and inserts were because we could see the slots.

But why be mysterious where the tap is? One machine will be in the corner but you can't tap until it lights. Some is on the screen and you can tap anytime. Some are on screen and you can't tap until you pick credit. Then there are those that say you can tap but the store doesn't have it turned on so you can't tap.

Pick a fucking standard. It's using the chip all over again, that was really fucking annoying too, you would go to swype and they say oh you need to insert the chip, next store you go to and you insert but they say that don't work and you need to swype.

At least try to keep up instead of being defeatist.

To be fair it is pretty finicky and you never quite know where the NFC receiver is on the payment terminal. Sometimes I just say fuck it and insert the card

Some people vibe with analog, some people vibe with digital.

All of those things have one UI, one process for success, and so all experience is cumulative and transferrable. Tap-to-pay is a new button and process and tap-spot each time, each vendor, each venue.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who went from a relatively clever teen to being a fucking braindead idiot as an adult but I am concerned that this seems to be somewhat commonplace.

I've been working retail almost 3 years, a lot of people don't know how to use a card to pay for things.

No, wiping it over the machine like a cloth won't make it work better.

maybe we just lost the spark

... Tell me more about this penny trick.

I feel like I missed something in my childhood!

Wait, how have you guys fucked up payments this time? I thought the US was finally on board with everyone else after the chip and sign debacle

In the UK (and anywhere I can recall travelling) we pretty much always tap (i.e. move your phone or card within 5cm) above the screen or a bit more in recent years, on the top of the machine for one of those touch screen ones.

I think the only time I don't manage to pay first time is when the terminal or my phone is broken

About being left behind - sheesh, I guess thisbguy was born with knowledge of all he did as a teen. Not like, had to be curious and learn it xD

Meanwhile my great grandmother, in her 80s, was able to learn how to boot up Win95 to play some puzzle games.

I personally think it's because she was never really one for passive entertainment. If she watched television, it was stuff like Wheel of Fortune and she played along. She hit up the library every week for fresh books, and did a lot of crochet and crossword.

It's similar to how I think her curiosity for life and refusal to be afraid is why she wasn't a bigot. We have several interracial marriages in my family, and she never had a problem with it, despite being born in 1912.

She lived to be 100, and I hope I'm half as cool as she was.