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walburgablack replied to your post “walburgablack replied to your post “Both Z and I are getting super…”
nazgul is a woman’s name, yes. also, salting your luggage with cash is standard south and i have a feeling south-west asian practice, because ATMs weren’t a thing till about ten years ago and still may not be in remote places.
Dude was like, “that’s a Tolkien thing isn’t it” and I was like “listen… yes.” and he won’t stop giggling at how boggled I was.
Part of it is how he read off the email thing. He wasn’t explaining coherently what was going on, and so the name “Nazgul” came out kind of in the middle, and I was like “hold up the Nazgul want what now?” and it was a thing. If I’d just directly seen it in writing I think it would have been less hilarious.
I know when I went to Greece in ‘95 the concept of the ATM was still pretty new– how much of that is that I didn’t really do my own banking yet, and how much was that they were a recent phenomenon, I don’t know. My mother hadn’t ever used a gas station pay at the pump or an ATM until well into my adulthood, so I do know my family has some fairly conservative tendencies when it comes to adopting consumer technology.
(I just read the ATM wikipedia page and am none the wiser; they were invented in the late 60s but I have no idea when they became prevalent.)
I just know better than to carry all my money in one place. I at least still use cash to buy stuff from small businesses because I know about credit card processing fees from the farm’s experiences; Dude literally never carries cash anymore, so this is kind of a rude shock for him.
Actually I can’t think of the last time I used an ATM, because for the last decade I’ve worked for a company too cheap to direct deposit paychecks, so I have to go to the bank to drop them off and so I always just get money then. And if I’m ever paid at the farm, it’s in cash and actual barter goods, so. Dude has gone forward to the 21st century and I’m back in the late 19th.
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walburgablack replied to your post “walburgablack replied to your post “Both Z and I are getting super…”
nazgul is a woman’s name, yes. also, salting your luggage with cash is standard south and i have a feeling south-west asian practice, because ATMs weren’t a thing till about ten years ago and still may not be in remote places.
Dude was like, “that’s a Tolkien thing isn’t it” and I was like “listen… yes.” and he won’t stop giggling at how boggled I was.
Part of it is how he read off the email thing. He wasn’t explaining coherently what was going on, and so the name “Nazgul” came out kind of in the middle, and I was like “hold up the Nazgul want what now?” and it was a thing. If I’d just directly seen it in writing I think it would have been less hilarious.
I know when I went to Greece in ‘95 the concept of the ATM was still pretty new– how much of that is that I didn’t really do my own banking yet, and how much was that they were a recent phenomenon, I don’t know. My mother hadn’t ever used a gas station pay at the pump or an ATM until well into my adulthood, so I do know my family has some fairly conservative tendencies when it comes to adopting consumer technology.
(I just read the ATM wikipedia page and am none the wiser; they were invented in the late 60s but I have no idea when they became prevalent.)
I just know better than to carry all my money in one place. I at least still use cash to buy stuff from small businesses because I know about credit card processing fees from the farm’s experiences; Dude literally never carries cash anymore, so this is kind of a rude shock for him.
Actually I can’t think of the last time I used an ATM, because for the last decade I’ve worked for a company too cheap to direct deposit paychecks, so I have to go to the bank to drop them off and so I always just get money then. And if I’m ever paid at the farm, it’s in cash and actual barter goods, so. Dude has gone forward to the 21st century and I’m back in the late 19th.
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