That kind of thing is my biggest concern with going smartphoneless. It seems like more and more businesses assume a smartphone as a prerequisite. I would really love for there to be a "you have to allow customers without a smart phone" law.
I don't want to be excluded from society because the $1,000 chunk of incredibly advanced electronics I bought a few years ago stopped getting updates.
I hope you at least got a refund on the tickets.
> When I have to Zelle my mechanic I do it from my laptop at home before I leave the house -- good thing I trust him.
Cash?
Another places that punishes me for not having a phone is Whole Foods, I never get my discount for having Prime. They say I can use my phone number but it never works. I refuse to put more effort into it.
I "keep up" on news via my laptop -- which I keep open on my desk. I check my papers and Hackernews, etc throughout the day. I have a print subscription to the New Yorker.