> handing your credit card to the waiter at a restaurant is still pretty common I believe this is one of those things that's almost exclusively an Americanism.

> handing your credit card to the waiter at a restaurant is still pretty common I believe this is one of those things that's almost exclusively an Americanism. Where I live (Australia) you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone that would ever eat at the restaurant again if the waiter tried to take their card.