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I live in a small village today after spending 10 hours in my day job and another 2 doing some maintenance to one of my rental properties I arrived home and decided to go and get milk ,bread and a couple of beers. Quite normal you may think ! I walked in the front door to see a large queue and thought great ! After a couple of minutes collecting what I wanted I joined the queue with a total of eleven people in it, I thought great and there seemed to be some problem going on at the tills I waited a while and another few people joined the queue then there was an announcement at the tills sorry everyone the internet has gone down ( happens regularly as does the phone network and only one mobile network works) and it is cash only everyone bar one in front of me vanished with a hell of a lot of moaning how they had no milk,bread or what ever they wanted, the two of us left in the queue paid up and walked off. Fast forward an hour my lad walked in from work efing and a jeffing about the fact that the tills were down as well as the cash point and he had nothing to eat and nothing for tomorrow at work ( he had a tenner off me) all proof that technology rarely works as it does in the theoretical world. And having real money in your pocket is a bad idea as a £20 note is unaffected by the internet ! This is just today's woes but I've seen this happen to lots of people before such as Bank system going down , A lost bank card, Fraud leading to locked cards etc etc !
I live in a small village today after spending 10 hours in my day job and another 2 doing some maintenance to one of my rental properties I arrived home and decided to go and get milk ,bread and a couple of beers. Quite normal you may think ! I walked in the front door to see a large queue and thought great ! After a couple of minutes collecting what I wanted I joined the queue with a total of eleven people in it, I thought great and there seemed to be some problem going on at the tills I waited a while and another few people joined the queue then there was an announcement at the tills sorry everyone the internet has gone down ( happens regularly as does the phone network and only one mobile network works) and it is cash only everyone bar one in front of me vanished with a hell of a lot of moaning how they had no milk,bread or what ever they wanted, the two of us left in the queue paid up and walked off. Fast forward an hour my lad walked in from work efing and a jeffing about the fact that the tills were down as well as the cash point and he had nothing to eat and nothing for tomorrow at work ( he had a tenner off me) all proof that technology rarely works as it does in the theoretical world. And having real money in your pocket is a bad idea as a £20 note is unaffected by the internet ! This is just today's woes but I've seen this happen to lots of people before such as Bank system going down , A lost bank card, Fraud leading to locked cards etc etc !