But..
Usually if a place has a minimum to pay by card that's good.
Independent retailers pay much higher charges than chains with lots of outlets, so often it is the independents (this applies to corner shops as well as cards) who have to charge a minimum or it becomes soul-sapping to lose revenue that way.
Also, the staff hate it, PDQs are much slower than cash so you may have a queue glaring at them because you're too slow.
Or do you only drink in places like Wetherspoons and Yates?
(alboyalex, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:41, 1 reply)

First line, second paragraph
"Being as I do enjoy not having a phlegm filled pint I'm keeping this factoid in reserve until I get really shoddy service in a pub"

It's not intended as a twatty maneuver, more as a reserve 'little victory' (hence the title) for when someone in a pub or shop with a card machine does something deserving of a commuppance.

If it helps my case, I'm the sort of person who points out pricing errors in my favour in shops or picks up stuff that other people have knocked off shelves. I spent several years as a shop assistant, I know how annoying it is when people dick you around when you've done nothing wrong. That said, if someone deliberately pisses me off I'll give them both spunky barrels.
(chuckle_h0und You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:57, closed)