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People are still writing checks?
I live in Florida and every once in a while I run into an old person ahead of me in line who uses like 90% of their remaining lifetime to write a check to pay for groceries.
They always wait until after everything has been rang up... Then the dementia kicks in and they fumble around their fucking purse looking for the checkbook... Like it just now dawned on them that they have to pay for this shit... Where's my scrapbook of coupons? Oh I don't have a pen!
This is why you're in a fucking retirement home grandma! Die!
Of course you're from Texas. You know most of the people in your state are ancient relics and devout evangelists, yes?
No wonder they are so up in arms over the old people in line
Good thing they're dying off. They can take their checkbooks with them.
A lot of older people thought debit cards were a fad or didn't trust them.
Completely unaware that every person they hand a check to gets the account and routing numbers, along with legal name and address.
Now they're even older and learning is even harder.
I feel bad for all the cashiers that have to explain to someone our presidents age why they can't take a check, but I guess most people that old don't do their own shopping anymore anyways.
So they choose a payment method where the bank account and routing number are printed in plaintext on the document. 🙄
Yeah, but you signed the check so the bank knows it's real. I see no further possible security transactions beyond what I've explained.
Would you post your bank account number and routing number online to back up that opinion?
Do you know what ACH is?
Sure, but only if there's a line to sign. Cuz banks, my parents, and my grandparents taught me that if you sign things then people can't steal from you.
Friend_of_Satan, are you trying to imply that somehow something negative could occur after you put your signature on something???
I guess you’ve never been to Publix at 9am
I would very much not guess that. Maybe that would've been the case in the past, but Boomers seem largely in denial about their diminished capacity and are bent on maintaining their independence at more advanced age than previous generations did.
The oldest boomers aren't 80 years old yet...
2024 - 1946 = 78
2024 - 1943 = 81
pretty close tho, and if you consider that American WWII vets came back home after their tour of duty was over, and not necessarily when the war was over, there could be some octogenarian boomers
Dude. I've taken care of patients since 91 until 2008. That includes some literal baby boomers.
No generation is more or less likely to fight for their independence. It's a human thing that has no generational barrier. Some of my patients were old enough that they could tell stories about their grandparents from the 1800s refusing to go easy.
And all those old people fighting against young idiots trying to get them to slow down? They're right. The folks that do slow down suffer faster deterioration in every way.
I have no clue why people are so hell bent on painting baby boomers with every possible fault, but it's dumb. Unlike most, you put seem in there, and that's cool as hell! Seeing someone straight up state that they're reporting their perception is so rare.
I'll say this much. I'll be fighting every damn inch of the way against ageist bullshit, and anyone should. I'll give up what little bits of independence I have to when I have to because I've seen what happens to people when they listen to their idiot kids and "take it easy".
Bro, why the fuck are you bringing Biden into a thread about Target?
Old people do. I get a cashier's check from time to time, but I don't consider it anywhere close to the same as "writing" a check