Go to content Go to navigation Go to search

A little thing, really—

Does it ever bother anyone else that, in television commercials, when they go to swipe a credit card through a reader, which is something all of us have done (or so I am presuming; presuming, that is, an audience comprised almost wholly of those with little pieces of plastic in their pockets with magnetic strips on them that can be swiped through devices connected to modems that will transfer bits of information across phone lines and thus signify to a merchant whether you can pay for whatever it is you’re paying for)—you ever notice how they always run the cards through right-side up, so you can see the logo? Which, since the stripe is near the top of the card, is actually upside down, from a utilitarian point of view?

Does this bother anyone else out there? —It’s just me, isn’t it.

Commenting is closed for this article.