At the beginning of a romance, a person's habits may seem unimportant or even endearing, but over the long term his nightly snoring or her thing about never raising the window shades can begin to grate.
The waiter apologized that they didn’t accept credit cards but added that there was a cash machine just outside their restaurant. The waiter said, ‟I’m sorry, we _______accept credit cards. However, there is a cash machine just outside our restaurant.”