Today my wife and I went out to dinner at a restaurant that accepts bitcoin, but didn't get to use it. I've been wanting to go there for a while now, but it's a couple hours from where we live and my wife has no particular interest in bitcoin. We ended up having to do some errands downtown anyways so I finally got to take her to this restaurant.

I wanted to go so that I could try out the bitcoin ATM that the restaurant owned (never had used one before) and so that I could buy something with bitcoin in person (have only ever used it online). I was impressed with how easy it was to exchange bills into bitcoin with the ATM, but when I went to pay for the meal with bitcoin the employee told me their tablet wasn't charged. I ended up paying in cash. Thankfully I had enough cash on me!

I was disappointed. My wife doesn't get how awesome bitcoin is and talks about it in contrast to "real money." Today my wife saw that I couldn't use bitcoin at one of the few places nearby that accepts bitcoin, but she saw that they took my "real money."

I just wanted to encourage business owners to be ready to accept bitcoin if you are going to advertise that you do :) Thanks!

TL;DR - I was excited about getting to use bitcoin, but couldn't because restaurant's tablet wasn't charged.