# Order a Coffee and Pay, With a Tap on the Dash'

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/order-a-coffee-and-pay-with-a-tap-on-the-dash/126620>\
**Category:** Safety\
**Created:** [October 12, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/order-a-coffee-and-pay-with-a-tap-on-the-dash/126620 "2018-10-12T13:52:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 4:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/order-a-coffee-and-pay-with-a-tap-on-the-dash/126620/21 "2018-10-18T04:33:48Z")

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I was investigating hearing aids at my wife’s insistence. She doesn’t realize that sometimes I don’t WANT to hear her. I saw an intriguing German on thet fit completely in the ear with a rechargeable battery but I lost interest when I found out you adjusted it with your cell phone.

When I drove school bus, 7 or 8 years ago, I had a special ed student whose mother had moved out of the district who wanted him to stay in our school. A compromise was reached where I would take him to a city bus stop and I was supposed to call his mother and let her know he was on the bus.

Since I didn’t have a cell phone our office gave me one to use and sent me with an aide, a gentleman about my age. After the student was on the bus, I handed the phone to the aide and asked him to make the call. It turned out that neither one of us knew how to make a call with a cell phone. I called our office on the radio and had them make the call but the rest of our drivers were quite amused by the radio call.

I actually owned a cell phone from 1989 to 1995 when I was a trucker for the last trucking co. I needed it to get my work call or I could not leave the house. It was huge especially with the optional 6 hour battery pack and it completely filled the pocket of my work pants. It had no screen and dialed just like my touch tone phone at home. I gave it away the day I retired to another driver.

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**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/order-a-coffee-and-pay-with-a-tap-on-the-dash/126620/22 "2018-10-18T14:08:15Z")

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Maxwell Smart.

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