In article <0001HW.C41C414C001B3CA3B01AD9AF@news.cable.ntlworld.com>,
Mike Lane wrote:
> > There wasn't a machine that accepted anything 10 years ago. Even when there
> > are
> > they are some times out of order, even in the Netherlands. :o)
>
> It happened to me more recently than that. 2 years ago in a small town in
> France we were stuck overnight having got too low on petrol. We had cash and
> several credit and debit cards from different banks. None of our cards worked
> in any of the automatic pumps in the town. It was after 5.00 pm and none of
> the pumps were manned, so we couldn't use cash either.
I thought that was an issue more for Americans, because our credit cards
don't have the chips in them.
What do they call chips in Italian? |