and also your testicles as you obviously have no need for them.
As you may know there a lot of things that rile me, that ‘get my goat’ as it were [Reader, No shit Sherlock] and if you know me personally rather than just the stuff on the blog you could multiply that X10.
But one of the things that always makes me seethe, is any man paying for goods of value less than £10 with a Debit Card. (To be honest less than £20 really, but I’m being generous this morning)
It happened to me last night, two ‘supposed’ men in the queue front of me in the Co-Op, one had some sweets and the item he’d obviously been sent out to get, the other a Six Pack of Coke and a loaf of bread.
Both waited until the total was pronounced and then produced their Debit cards, honestly one was about £6 and the other less than a Fiver, I wanted to scream at them.
It’s not as if you don’t have the money, it is a DEBIT card FFS not a Credit Card and there was a cash point just outside the door, be a man have some CASH in your pocket.
Surely even if all you were getting out was Tenner to buy the shopping, it’s worth the self respect value alone.
And as far as I’m concerned any man who uses a Debit card to buy a round in the pub, deserves to be taken outside and summarily executed.
It boils my wossname as well.
ReplyDeleteI was stood behind a young lad at a 7-11 in Houston, Texas. He had a pack of gum. He paid for it with his credit card! 89 cents!
CR.
I refuse to discriminate. Anyone, male, female, undecided, who uses a debit or credit card for a purchase of less than £20 should be made to go to a special till with a flashing neon sign over it saying 'Selfish G*its Queue'.
ReplyDelete"And as far as I’m concerned any man who uses a Debit card to buy a round in the pub, deserves to be taken outside and summarily executed."
ReplyDeleteI disagree. He should be required to use the card to buy a round for all the people who've been delayed and/or annoyed by his behaviour, and then taken outside and given the chop.
I've never used a credit or debit card in a supermarket. In fact I prefer to avoid the damned things altogether except where unavoidable (eg online and, bizarrely, when staying overnight in a Wetherspoon "lodge" — they do not accept cash). I usually prefer to pay in cash up to the point where the actual number of £20 notes involved becomes a nuisance.
This can be entertaining. I bought a little netbook computer to carry round with me. When I offered the girl at the till 15×£20 notes in payment, she went into a blind panic.
Could not agree more. I hate waiting for muppets with debit cards.
ReplyDeleteI use mine two or three times a week to get a couple of days worth of cash out of the wall.
People buying rounds in the pub or chewing gum in the shop with a debit card.
ReplyDeleteSecond only to the person who doesn't have a method of payment ready after having stood at a checkout while their goods were scanned. Beep, Beep, Beep, (weigh) BEEP! When the checkout pilot asks for payment they're standing with a WTF look on their face AND they haven't put anything in a bag; they've just stood in their pyjamas like some sort of missively dense turnip while everyone else is made to wait while they try to breath and figure out how a pocket works at the same time which lets face it is a big ask if you have the cognitive function of a root vegatable.
There's my monday morning rant. It was going on Sub Rosa's blog but it errored when I submitted it and I couldnt be arsed retyping the stupid thing.
Cheers ;)
Bollox to that!! You can waste your time constantly getting cash out of cash machines if you like, and end up wasting the change, as you can only get notes out of them, if you want, I'll just continue to spend the exact amount I need to thank-you very much. And if I'm paying with my credit card I'm being paid by the credit card company with cashback for all my purchases too.
ReplyDeleteYou can try taking my man card if you like but you better have some muscle to back up your big mouth!
I'm feeling very nervous now....
ReplyDeleteI had someone try and pay for a $2.95 pk of cotton buds with an EFTPOS card. I gave him my 'really?' look and he found the 2 necessary coins in his pocket.
ReplyDeleteOn the other side, I am one of the few wimmin whose husband has a secondary credit card off mine.
pa_broon74 has the crux of it, above. The time taken to conduct a transaction depends on the individual making the purchase. The smart, quick ones take little time; the average bear takes a tolerable time; the dense fucks take a ball-achingly long time. Cash or card, it matters not.
ReplyDeleteI was going to see your bloke paying <£10 with a debit card and raise you an old dear painstakingly counting out coins of the realm in between interminable, mindless chatter about her daughter's holiday plans. But then I thought no. Such sedate scenes are what make us better than the animals, dammit.
Jim said ''You can try taking my man card if you like''
ReplyDeleteyou havent got a man card mate. as you already pay like a girl.
'The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice, it's technology.' [Nassim 'Black Swan' Taleb]
ReplyDeleteDiscuss.
you havent got a man card mate. as you already pay like a girl
ReplyDeleteClass !!!