Today I watched a cash machine boot up. (You can tell I'm a geek not a girl: anything half-techie distracts me from shopping.)
More interesting was watching the reactions of startled shoppers. Instead of being politely asked to "insert card" they were blasted with bold jargon:
OS/2 Warp
Loading 00020
System Ready
I started daydreaming about borrowing an ATM for a day so I could greet strangers. "You're looking fine today," would be one message, swiftly followed by "have you lost weight?"
Personally I'd rather do that than run the more traditional subvertisements:
buy nothing
greed is good
watch more tv
(By the way you are looking fine today, but nobody loses weight over Christmas.)
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