I’ve only used cash once in about four years, paying for a £10.10 order of cod n chips with a £20 note. The guy went off on a rant about how no one had the correct money anymore, and it just made it worse when I pointed out he was the one who’d decided to run a cash only business and set the price of presumably the most popular order like that.
Here are some additional quintessentially British social anxieties to add to the list:
4) Making eye contact with someone while both waiting for the kettle to boil
5) Saying “sorry” when someone else bumps into you
6) The sheer panic when someone starts singing “Happy Birthday” and you don’t know where to look
7) Pretending to be on your phone to avoid talking to a neighbor you’ve seen in public
8) The internal crisis of whether to dunk a biscuit in tea during a formal meeting
9) Awkwardly holding a door open for someone who’s slightly too far away, forcing them to do a polite jog
10) The horror of accidentally using someone else’s designated mug in the office kitchen
These social situations perfectly capture the British combination of politeness, social awkwardness, and quiet suffering in silence – all while maintaining a stiff upper lip, of course.
I don’t get it, what’s to be feared with any of these?
Not everyone seems to suffer from number 3. I work in a shop and some jackass tried to pay £2.10 with a £50 note then got shirty when I said no.
The modern version of 3) is ‘paying for a 27p item with your phone’
These are my favourite British activities, you never know what you’re going to get 😂
I fear none of these things. Am I Batman?
Some things cost under a pound??
In the Philippines you have to sit on top of people in the back of a jeep while Mariah Carey blasts out with the bass jammed up to maximum.
And the concept of queuing is in very rudimentary stages.
Embrace the fear become the darkness
4. (which follows from 3) when the cashier gives you the notes before the coins.
Every time I hand someone a £20 note for something that is a lot less, i always apologise because I just feel so bad
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27p items don’t exist anymore
More like paying £20 for a 27p item.
Siting on a bus. There corrected that for you.
I hate last one 😂
I’ve only used cash once in about four years, paying for a £10.10 order of cod n chips with a £20 note. The guy went off on a rant about how no one had the correct money anymore, and it just made it worse when I pointed out he was the one who’d decided to run a cash only business and set the price of presumably the most popular order like that.
Here are some additional quintessentially British social anxieties to add to the list:
4) Making eye contact with someone while both waiting for the kettle to boil
5) Saying “sorry” when someone else bumps into you
6) The sheer panic when someone starts singing “Happy Birthday” and you don’t know where to look
7) Pretending to be on your phone to avoid talking to a neighbor you’ve seen in public
8) The internal crisis of whether to dunk a biscuit in tea during a formal meeting
9) Awkwardly holding a door open for someone who’s slightly too far away, forcing them to do a polite jog
10) The horror of accidentally using someone else’s designated mug in the office kitchen
These social situations perfectly capture the British combination of politeness, social awkwardness, and quiet suffering in silence – all while maintaining a stiff upper lip, of course.
I don’t get it, what’s to be feared with any of these?
Not everyone seems to suffer from number 3. I work in a shop and some jackass tried to pay £2.10 with a £50 note then got shirty when I said no.
The modern version of 3) is ‘paying for a 27p item with your phone’
These are my favourite British activities, you never know what you’re going to get 😂
I fear none of these things. Am I Batman?
Some things cost under a pound??
In the Philippines you have to sit on top of people in the back of a jeep while Mariah Carey blasts out with the bass jammed up to maximum.
And the concept of queuing is in very rudimentary stages.
Embrace the fear become the darkness
4. (which follows from 3) when the cashier gives you the notes before the coins.
Every time I hand someone a £20 note for something that is a lot less, i always apologise because I just feel so bad
Add
Not being the last person to say “Sorry” in an apology loop
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