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Cash or Card?

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Gone are the days when would I would willingly waste precious time locating an ATM machine to supply me with my cash needs to fund night outs.   I am one of the those early adapters to go by card, and card alone. I am that annoying customer bar staff hate, who wanders up, hands in my pocket, requesting various drinks of different varieties to suit my friends miscellaneous tastes, pointing out the right concoctions, pointing at the drinks he just served asking me to repeat for the third time which one was which. I then thank him and pull out my bank card, give it a little wave in the air to indicate I would like to pay by this method.  He then rolls his eyes and slopes off to stand patiently behind the other staff member who is currently trans-acting on the one card machine of the entire bar for another person in my group.   By now the bartender truly wishes me harm and as he not only has to spent extra personal time with me waiting for the machine to print the receipt bu