At the Drive-In

This is the Drive-In drinks store we have in Moranbah, at the side of the pub/nightclub/games room/bookies/restaurant – one building just brimming with fun! You can probably make out the sign informing us that the left lane is for ‘Cash Only’ and the right for ‘Browsing and EFTPOS’. The Australians use the expression ‘EFTPOS’ all the time, they seem to make life unnecessarily complicated sometimes. I didn’t have a clue what it meant to start with when someone asked me whether I was using eftpos – it actually stands for ‘Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale’, which to us simple English folk means a credit/debit card transaction. Why they can’t just use the expression ‘cards’ or have a visa etc sign I don’t know. The other example of this is the fact that they use the expression ‘SMS’ (Short Message Systems) all the time, rather than just using the word ‘text’ which would be far more obvious than having to constantly work out acronyms (they would love the SITS software out here – how nice it was to write ‘SMS’ without thinking about module selections!!).
Anyone want to guess at what the most popular drink is here…anyone?…(Gladys?!)!!