I went to eat at a Burger King with two friends. We were not wearing face masks, but as a measure against covid, the keys on the card reader keypad were given separately in plastic bags and we had to install them ourselves to pay.

After we got out, I was with my parents instead, and we went to a place with multiple concert halls stacked on multiple floors. Once there, we could give the bags of keys to a waiter. We went to visit all the floors; each concert hall had a different theme, and some artists had a thin and tall speaker where they were supposed to have a human face.

On the topmost floor, there wasn’t a rather high ceiling like the other floors. The room still had some concert equipment, and had a wooden floor. The room was fully lit up, because there was no concert going on there.

A man was standing at a counter on the side opposite to the stage, and a mailman was next to him, handing him a package. I head over to the counter and pay for the shipping fee with what looks like a netherlands post debit card. I type my code on the keypad (with normal keys this time), but the screen seems to expect 5 digits instead of the usual 4: it displays 5 white squares.

The squares display the code in plain, not the usual *, and something on the screen says that I should not be pressing the green button because the transaction will be validated automatically, so I wait while the mailman gets to admire my card’s code for a few seconds. It finally accepts the payment, and I leave the building while telling my parents about the amazing level of security I just experienced.