It's the same here. Very few people routinely write checks anywhere save for maybe rent or something, and even that's a rarity. Like, the only people you see writing checks at the grocery store are old ladies with one foot in the grave.
I think some people like having that extra couple of days of processing time before a payment hits their bank account. Me, I only ever used checks to pay my rent, until the company that owns the building updated their payment site so it actually worked. Now the checkbook is sitting and collecting dust.
Yeah, rent is the thing that was most mentioned as paid by cheque. But even that limited use case stood out to me in a charmingly archaic way, kind of like how the Japanese still use fax.
I think I've had to write like 3 checks in the past decade to contractors or people who for some reason didn't take card.
Same. My girlfriend (homeowner) will write checks for one-off service people in lieu of cash or card. I don't know why since most of them accept cards, but she prefers a check. Outside of that, the checkbook collects dust on her vanity. Me? I got a stash of several books of checks with my bank account years ago and have yet to get through the first book since.
...I think I win. I get "Nanomachine".Found a thing. Enter a year and get a list of words that were used in print for the first time.
Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster
When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Choose a year, and we'll show you the words that come from that date.www.merriam-webster.com
Entered my year of birth. Got, among other stuff: anime, latte, sexual predator, beatboxing & microbrew.
Interesting collection. All things people commonly enjoy to this day, except for anime /s
I got dongle.Found a thing. Enter a year and get a list of words that were used in print for the first time.
Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster
When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Choose a year, and we'll show you the words that come from that date.
Entered my year of birth. Got, among other stuff: anime, latte, sexual predator, beatboxing & microbrew.
Interesting collection. All things people commonly enjoy to this day, except for anime /s
Shit, I got:Found a thing. Enter a year and get a list of words that were used in print for the first time.
Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster
When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Choose a year, and we'll show you the words that come from that date.
Entered my year of birth. Got, among other stuff: anime, latte, sexual predator, beatboxing & microbrew.
Interesting collection. All things people commonly enjoy to this day, except for anime /s
Found a thing. Enter a year and get a list of words that were used in print for the first time.
Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster
When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Choose a year, and we'll show you the words that come from that date.
Entered my year of birth. Got, among other stuff: anime, latte, sexual predator, beatboxing & microbrew.
Interesting collection. All things people commonly enjoy to this day, except for anime /s
Yeah, if American television is to be believed then direct debit is some mysterious occult magic that remains out of reach.
Out of curiosity, what are you basing that on? I don't see a lot of check-writing on American television, but then again, I don't watch a lot of television outside of sports, and neither debit use nor check-writing come up in that much at all.
www.newscientist.com
On one hand, this all sounds like a Wikipedia joke but other hand, secret societies are fucking weird so maybe this was a real thing. Who knows?
