Like hell. BTC is not only not normal currency, but it is also extremaly hard to use. I've tried to use that piece of $#17 so I know.
I would not argue against that. I finally got a friend of mine to mess around with it. Even
at this early stage, one needs a pretty decent computer...at least for the initial block download which he gave up on after a few days. How it would be in steady-state, I don't know.
There was really not much choice but to either forget about Bitcoin or just go ahead and have someone else hold his wallet which is, I feel, a much less reliable way of holding value than just using a mainstream bank and USD (currently.) On top of that, getting BTC in the first place is kind of an expensive hassle which opens one up to massive surveillance unless one is very careful and knowledgeable.
To me Bitcoin is a hugely interesting and important experiment, but it's not real applicable as an every day currency. The only practical way to obtain them is in bulk due to overhead, but then one must trust other parties with significant value and/or deal with huge volatility.
I feel as strongly as ever that Bitcoin's main hope in terms gaining traction for general use is for it's competition to fail which would make it more compelling in a relative sense.