THe FReCKLeD FINGeR

Alright.

Can we officially put to bed the myth about wrapping the credit card in a plastic bag will help it swipe correctly?

I've NEVER seen it done yet it continues to be practiced among NYC's lovely and exotic cashiers.  When these women (and it's most often women, not to sound misogynistic but it's just the way it is) come to our country is that the very first thing that is taught to them?

No worky. Put in baggy. Swipey. Worky.

I don't care if your wrists get so cramped they fall off your arm and you cannot work and therefore cannot send money back home to your family so they are then forced to eat your youngest child which probably would have died anyway from some goddamn tsetse fly bite or crocodile attack while washing their stupid pashmina at the water's edge, keep swiping until it processes!  Keep the bag away from my card!

Oh wait, I have a coupon for those... double coupon.