Last year I switched to cash only(Canada), this week had to think for a moment to remember my PIN. The self checkout's are horrible, and de-huminising, and jus

Last year I switched to cash only(Canada), this week had to think for a moment to remember my PIN. The self checkout's are horrible, and de-huminising, and just now it occured to me to start calling them the "self abuse line". Going to cash has also prompted me to be more frugal, and buy bulk, single ingredients for cooking meals, as I think there is something in the monkey brain that is reluctant to hand anything over for nothing much in return.And hefting many packaged items(and putting them back) reveals that they are shiny boxes full of air,described as bieng mega something with enhanced nutrition(pro), but true costs are $60+/kg for some bland food substitute pellets, that have 72 different ingedients, written out in a micro font, that must require special printing equipment to produce. What is fun at the cashier checkout, is handing them the correct amount, and watching the robo-human employee flounder, some (get it) and smile after a second, but others are clearly freaked out by a spontainoius demonstration of minor mental arithmatic combined with physical money.