You step up to the ATM, credit card from wallet from pocket in oft-played perfect performance, plastic from leather from cloth, our modern choreography, life today, as likewise and simultaneously your Personal Identification Number in remembered readiness placed in position to the forefront of your trained awaiting brain, which you insert, that hand, those fingers, your card, into the provided appropriate slot, your hand, one already ready finger upraised, in smooth movement already moving into preliminary position above the numbered keyboard, as required, where, before, poised in striking or tapping pre-type hovering place, your finger, that finger, except, this time,…

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