Oct242010
What the machine knows
Sunday, October 24th, 2010 at 9:30 pm by bekzhanThings I know from the logs of a bank machine, without knowing a single customer's name:
- On the 1st and 15th of the month the queue is long and the machine is happy.
- The most common amount is 50 som. The second most common is "everything".
- Many people take the card out before the money. The machine beeps. The people do not hear it.
- At 3 a.m. the most common customer is a taxi driver.
- Very few people read the screen. Everyone presses the green button.
That last one is my fault, I helped design the screens.
Young man, the green button is a universal truth. My grandson Dima agrees.