You tap your card on the screen or insert it if you must.
You scrawl a signature on that screen too for some reason.
Will that scrawl hold up in court? Could it be any more useless? Who wrote this program?
Once a mini math challenge and a tangible consideration of the person who served you, a tip is now just a price gouge, or so it feels.
Counting out change, interacting with paper, saying thanks to the person at the counter, none of that was efficient.
Yet I grow sentimental, now, for that fine old era of human-to-human interface with its moments of sanctuary from any screen and this, ‘the process.’
Eat, tap, and pay the screen/Hold your phone to the screen to pay that way/Click one more click/Away from any person/Away from all people/Be the bot among all us other bots.