Chapter 161: Fancy Board Room

"What is it you do in your fancy board room, anyway?" I ask to steer the topic away from where we were headed. Notice he doesn't fight me on the board room being fancy.

"Moore Investments has many different arms, but our biggest division is point of sale payment terminals."

Grant stops like I'm supposed to understand the meaning of what he said. "And that is?"

"Oh." Grant thinks about how to answer the question. "The little black boxes you swipe your credit card on when you check out."

"The credit card machines?" Why couldn't he just call them that? I don't need it kindergarten simple.

"Yes. We process the transactions and make many forms of the readers as well. There's a large manufacturer of them right here in San Francisco, but most of our work is done in China."

"Why are they always broken?" Half the time when you check out the machine is either broken or the screen doesn't work properly. Who designed those stupid pens?