I don't understand them. The premise appears to be that using Visa is sooooo much faster than using cash and waiting for a clerk to make change. I do understand that the commercials are touting SmartCard technology where you simply wave your card in front of the device, much like SpeedPass (different technology, same result) at the gas station, and the transaction magically occurs. No signature? No waiting for the transaction to "process"? This I have to see in action to believe.... What? Everywhere I go still uses the old Verifone machines? I still have to wait for the process to chug along while the schmuck in front of me uses a credit card to buy a $4.25 latte? Some places still haven't upgraded their machines to the degree that my FULL card number is not printed on the receipt for the world to see? No thanks... The commercial makes no sense as a advertisement for Visa as a network. It would be better served as an ad for the NEW Verifone devices with SmartCard technology. (Assuming your bank issues SmartCard Visa cards) A little ahead of its time.
Seating on mass transit -
I must just have one of those faces... one of those postures that says:
"If you are the largest person on the planet, and you need a seat on any mode of mass transit, plant your hugeness right next to me. And feel free to spill over into my seat. First, stretch out a little... then a lot... First priority to sit by me goes to who smells the worst. Oh, and ask me for a cigarette too."
It never fails. Do I really look like an accommodating soul?
Maybe this was the wrong pic to upload... ;-)
It must be the cosmos, karma, or something, because it happens to me on airplanes too. I have no answers.
