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Unfortunate side effect of America finally getting chip card readers:

Massive uptick in how often cashiers have used the phrase “put it in” at me

I didn’t know so many people would be confused by this, America was still exclusively “swiping” credit cards until only like two years ago. We had no idea it was different in other countries and a lot of us found the new chip method to be strange, awkward and even irritating.

There was also such a rash of people accidentally leaving their cards inserted as they walked out of the store that most chains made the “please remove card” noise significantly louder and harsher, to the further irritation of cashiers themselves who have to hear it all day long.

Do you even HAVE a noise reminding you to take the card back out or is it so second nature you don’t need one?

Okay so it is just us who get reminded to remove our cards the same way we’d be reminded that an unknown life form has breached the hull

I hate the angry, disappointed sound that chip readers make.

And even now, one of my cards doesn’t have the chip yet, it still has to be swiped.

I hate to tell you but in the rest of the world we’ve mostly moved to a system where if the purchase is under a certain amount ($80 in NZ, I think 30 pounds in the UK, not sure about Euro or AUD) you just tap the card on the reader.

The amount in Canada is anything under $50 you can tap to pay. Transactions take seconds.