I am at a loss, the sadness is so deep and overwhelming it threatens to drag me down to the deepest depths as if tied to an anchor and cast into the ocean. And the reason? Our local shop, called Biedronka (Ladybird) has given up the quest of accepting cash only, and ventured into the modern world by accepting, wait for it...  cards.
No longer will I have the joy of watching people search endlessly for the smallest of small change, the minutest of coinage, and the wonderfully dejected look of the cashier when you reply that you have no such small change with which to challenge the range of their mathematical skills.