On receiving a new credit card.

It still  'Requires a Signature'...

...which can be anything,

so long as the card-presenter can repeat (or copy) it.

But of course nobody looks at mere signatures anymore.

Instead of my name, I write my PIN in two ways, in Danish

(Tretten treogfyrre and Een-tre-fire-tre)

which only a Nordic could translate.

I could do the same in Finnish

(YksiKolmeNelyäKolme).

I can count up to 20 in Finnish – but not in Irish. 

“Go figure !” as they say

in the USA.

My head is full of the strangest things -

such as the year of the Murder of the Estonian Kings.