On 5 Apr, 06:33, "tile" wrote:
> "poldy" ha scritto nel messaggionews:poldy-9B9BEC.18123304042008@newsgroups.comcast.net...
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> > In article <0001HW.C41C414C001B3CA3B01AD...@news.cable.ntlworld.com>,
> > Mike Lane wrote:
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> >> > 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)
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> >> 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.
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> > I thought that was an issue more for Americans, because our credit cards
> > don't have the chips in them.
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> > What do they call chips in Italian?
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> they call them CHIPS
why do they use capital letters, thats gonna make things confusing.... |