Tubey goodness
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI thought that I’d had a decent night’s sleep when I woke up, but now I’m not so sure.
I rarely drag myself out of my pit with a spring in my step and I am almost never bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for the first hour or so, even on the best days. For all that it felt as though I’d slept well, though I am vaguely conscious of waking up briefly around dawn. It was the journey in that made me think otherwise.
As is my custom, I dozed on the Northern Line (This is usually a defence mechanism against rampant overcrowding, but this time of year with holidays and all, it’s just habit) between Totteridge & Whetstone and Camden Town. The next thing I knew I was waking again and the train was pulling into another station.
So I piled off in a panic.
Mornington Crescent. Bugger.
I’d forgotten I was on the Charing Cross branch and had assumed I was at Euston. Happily the next train was only a minute behind, but even so…
Coffee; it’s the only answer.
In other news, Sainsbury’s hole in the wall wouldn’t give me any cash, so I am going to have to find a Barclays at lunchtime. Drat. How did we cope before cash machines?
I rarely drag myself out of my pit with a spring in my step and I am almost never bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for the first hour or so, even on the best days. For all that it felt as though I’d slept well, though I am vaguely conscious of waking up briefly around dawn. It was the journey in that made me think otherwise.
As is my custom, I dozed on the Northern Line (This is usually a defence mechanism against rampant overcrowding, but this time of year with holidays and all, it’s just habit) between Totteridge & Whetstone and Camden Town. The next thing I knew I was waking again and the train was pulling into another station.
So I piled off in a panic.
Mornington Crescent. Bugger.
I’d forgotten I was on the Charing Cross branch and had assumed I was at Euston. Happily the next train was only a minute behind, but even so…
Coffee; it’s the only answer.
In other news, Sainsbury’s hole in the wall wouldn’t give me any cash, so I am going to have to find a Barclays at lunchtime. Drat. How did we cope before cash machines?
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Date: 2006-08-03 02:31 pm (UTC)You're playing with my mind....
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Date: 2006-08-02 10:18 am (UTC)We walked to banks and wrote cheques.
I remember regularly walking from The Poly to Hatfield Town Centre to go to get cash.
When did ATMs come into use? Mid 80s
Now, the thought of how we survived without Credit Cards !!!!!!............
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Date: 2006-08-02 10:40 am (UTC)Credit cards apparently started as company specific petrol payment cards in the US in the 1920s, then in the 1930s they started accepting each other's cards. The first multipurpose "charge card" was probably the Diners Club card in the early 1950s closely followed by American Express but these had bills that had to be paid in full each month. The Bank of America introduced, what was probably, the first credit card in 1958, which later turned into Visa, with MasterCharge appearing in 1966.
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