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Old February 24th 12, 12:20 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
Miles Bader Miles Bader is offline
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Default cards, was E-ZPass, was CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)

"Roger Traviss" writes:
Not to mention that using cash makes spending money somewhat more
visceral, which I kinda like... keeps spending down a bit maybe.

I find the U.S. credit/debit-card obsession just sort of weird...


Other than a few toonies and loonies (Google if you don't know what they
are) in the glove compartment for parking meters and they are not really
required as most meters take credit cards, I never carry cash.


Wacky!

-miles

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