Obviously this is about the power outage in Spain.

While normally, if a card declines, people would probably have to leave their IDs with the restaurant while they went to get a withdrawl from their bank; this is a power outage, withdrawls wouldn’t work. It would be silly to arrest people because of a power outage. So I’m assuming people just have to give the restaurant owner/management their identity info with a promise to pay?

And power outages shouldn’t affect buses, since they run on gasoline/diesel, but the payment system processing transit passes might not work. Do buses still get run during a power outage and they just let people on for free, or do they just shut down the bus lines?

  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I’ve only seen it IRL once and it was an old house in Florida that had a separate basin like a second toilet. I also remember a funny movie in the early minutes/late eighties that has a joke about “why are there two toilets?!” (crocodile Dundee maybe?)