I remember when it used to be 20p.
That’s inflation for you.
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Some places take contactless for pumping tyres.
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Garages around the area we’re in have had contactless air/water machines for years.
However, of more concern… the vending machine at work was recently fitted with a contactless terminal. The reason I didn’t carry cash was because it’d get used in the cash-only vender. But now - Oh, the financial abuse coupled with calorie increase 
Must.Have.Willpower.
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I remember when they were all free!
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I know, all the motorway ones I think, but none round me unfortunately.
£1.50 is the cheapest down here.
Speaking of cash….You can all save between £15-20 a year here. Open boot, plug in inflater to 12v socket, inflate tyres to spec…….
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Went to the Imperial War Museum the other week and needed to use a locker (I’d stayed in London overnight because of a business thing the evening before so had more with me than usual).
Lockers needed a £ but I didn’t have one - but they sold me a token for £2…
Edit - which I left at home yesterday when I went back to London, but as I was paying quite a bit for a climb at the Cutty Sark, they loaned me a token. Must add the IWM token to the contents of my manbag 
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There’s a Sainsbury’s that requires coins, but I always ask a member of staff to unlock a trolley for me and they always do.
I just tell them I have no coins on me.
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I don’t think I could find anyone at my local Tesco.
I’m not sure about Sainsbury, but I’ve got a little plastic thing on my keyring which works on trollies that don’t capture the £.
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Went to the barbers earlier and his card machine has gone down and it’s only cash today 
So got my hair cut and had to go and get cash which is a very rare occasion these days
My barbers card machine is very often ‘down’, actually out of the last 6 visits I’d say it’s been down for 4 of them.
I kindly suggested last time I was in there, he might want to get that replaced as it’s so unreliable
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They always get down on busy weekends. 
the nuisance kiddie rides that you find in supermarket lobbies take contactless now, so you don’t get to use ‘sorry kiddo, don’t have any change on me’ as an excuse any more.
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I’ve just received an odd email from Jet2:
Just so you know, we only accept card and contactless payments onboard all our flights.
Cool
We accept Apple Pay and Google Pay,
Great
but you’ll also need to bring your physical bank card to use chip and PIN when spending over £45.
This is the odd bit (not that I’ll be buying anything).
Don’t Apple and Google pay remove the Chip and PIN requirement since your biometrics act as your PIN?
Yup. I bought my car on GPay 
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I guess they must have had some issues in the past with Apple Pay / Google Pay to make them insist on a card for purchases of over £45.
I won’t be able to test it though - there’s nothing worth paying for on a flight.
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It’s dreadful
Use card, the bank charges an extortionate fee to the small business. Use cash, the bank charges an extortionate fee to the small business.
It’s a lose lose situation for these guys especially charity shops, one things for certain both ways the banks profit handsomely
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