I remember the TV bank ad of the women starting microwave popcorn to pop and paying a wad of bills on her laptop in less time than it took for the popcorn.
I will contentedly remain a dinosaur - writing checks, while watching Perry Mason and old movies on TCM.
DITTO - can’t be any more annoying for others than trying to shop while people are on their phones or walking in front of your car in the parking lot.
Right there with you. My experience with this ‘new’ world is that much is different, but little is better. And much is quite worse. For example, my city just installed “New! Improved!” parking meters downtown. Or rather, they removed them all, and put a single kiosk on each block. One must park, find the nearest kiosk, input one’s license plate number, select an amount of time, and then pay using credit card or use an app, that adds a small fee for the privilege. . The process takes from 30 seconds to two or so minutes, depending, and usually requires that one after leaving one’s car, must counterintuitively head the opposite direction from their destination in order to use a kiosk. The process, when we had meters, took perhaps five seconds. And nobody had to know where my car was on what date at which time for how long. The younger crowd loves using the app on their phone to pay (which shoots a percentage to the company that managed to sell the City on this terrible idea...). Fools. Downtown merchants are uniformly reporting a 25% drop in sales.