Cashierless parking facilities with automated payment machines were expected to become as common as ATMs. Fully automated, cashierless pay-on-foot systems are widely used and accepted in Europe.
On returning to the hayfield, Where can Mr. Thorn be? said Mrs. Merton: I thought he was in the field. / Magenta and Solferino looked at each other; the haymakers had made a pike on top of the hay in which they had buried him. / Mamma, said Solferino, I believe he's under that pike! / […] He went to sleep, said Magenta, and we covered him over with hay, and they have made a pike on top of him! / You naughty, tiresome children! said Mrs. Merton: what have you done?
Frequent showers from the dark clouds that swept in and out over the Sydney Football Stadium turned the surface into something of a gluepot.