‘Hate card-only places? Move with the times Boomer!’

Would you prefer to avoid interacting with a waiter unless they’re bringing you your food?

One Metro reader suggests human interaction is pretty redundant nowadays and ordering through an app is faster anyway. Do you agree?

But, what if you’re not into keeping with the times? Say you have a brick phone or prefer to pay with cash… What do you do then?

Let us know what you think.

‘I’m Gen-Z and my life is so much harder because I don’t use smart tech’

I agree with those who think people without smart technology are being marginalised.

I am only 16 and I’ve noticed it. I own a ‘brick’ phone, have never indulged in social media or online banking and my life is probably much harder than it needs to be.

For example, when I was in Year 11, my biology teacher was singing the praises of an app.

Both me and my best friend had ‘bricks’ and said as such. We got the snarkiest, surliest reply and were as good as told we’d fail our GCSE. Talk about a lack of ‘inclusivity’! Agnes, London

‘If a business doesn’t take cash I find somewhere else’

I completely agree with Carla –there is a plague of restaurants and shops refusing cash, especially in the big cities.

I remember going to five bakeries in Notting Hill before finding one that accepted cash.

Also, the QR thing happened to us in the Netherlands. They claimed it was because of covid but we had to touch the card that had the QR code on it, so that made no sense at all.

We left and went to the restaurant next door and sat outside, so they could see the money they lost by trying to force people to do things against their will. Tom Barnham, via email

I walked into a bar in Manchester last year and ordered two pints of lager. When they arrived, I was given one of those infernal card machines.

I proferred a £20 note and the barkeep recoiled in horror. ‘Card only,’ he told me, disdainfully.

‘Sorry,’ I told him, ‘I don’t have one.’

‘Well, how are you going to pay for these drinks, then?’ he asked.

‘With this £20 note,’ I smiled.

‘But we don’t take cash, we haven’t the facilities.’

So, I put my hands up in the air and said, ‘Well, you’ve just wasted two pints of beer, then,’ and walked out into the pub next door, where they gratefully excepted my money. Susan Ryan, Oldham

Readers are also discussing… Term time holidays and the right to public displays of decency

I know how Wesley Joyce feels when he says teachers should be fined for going on strike after he was for taking his kids on holiday during term-time (Metro, Tue).
It’s more expensive during the break.

I’d go away during term time, too. What you save covers the cost of the fines. Kids can’t learn anything with teachers on strike, so I think he has a valid point.
Neil W, Manchester

Last Friday, the weather was hot. Very hot. I was sitting in my living room by my window reading a book quietly with the radio on in the background. Suddenly I jumped, alerted by a loud noise coming from the street. I looked out and what I saw disgusted me.

There was a fully tattooed, obese man in his late 40s or early 50s walking on the pavement.

He was half-naked, wearing shorts, his T-shirt hanging on his shoulder and an open bottle of beer in his hand.

By his side, there were two women as fat as him. The young one who looked like his teen daughter wasn’t dressed much better – just a black miniskirt, which showed her bottom, and an orange top.

The three of them were talking very loudly. Suddenly the man burped and then all of them broke into laughs. It was an ugly vision imposed on me.

I understand the concept of freedom but what about my freedom? I didn’t ask for it. Tolerance has its limits.

There are proverbs that say ‘too much freedom kills freedom’ or, if you prefer, ‘your individual freedom stops where the freedom of others begins’.

Unpleasant antisocial behaviours are shameful and show utter disrespect towards the community. Doing whatever you want with your body in the privacy of your own home is one thing, but not having even basic manners nor a sense of decency is unacceptable.

Do these people have no shame? It’s deplorable that such a beautiful island as ours is tarnished by uncivilised people incapable of behaving themselves. Darounilu, London

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