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Originally Posted by Hugh
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Good grief, that was dreadful. Lightning and storms for the previous 4 days and I was pissed as I needed to use the time to get some stuff for our daughter's overseas trip coming up soon. Was the only day available.
So as a back story my hubby
loathes anywhere that does not take Amex. he uses it as his daily driver all the way - whenever and wherever he can. So for her (daughter's) school stuff it was all cheap(ish) throw away stuff that is easily available in rather low end stores. She'll only use it once, on this trip and that is it.
So...we go into a few stores and one (in particular) which had a bunch of rather disposable stuff to use as a one off (Shoezone). We spend like 40 minutes trying stuff on and my daughter finally settles on 3 items (needed for one week lol) and we go to pay and the ladies at the till say "sorry the card reader is out" which is totally wrong. I could have paid in cash but he was so pissed off he basically said to them "it is not the reader it is your issue as a store". He had no clue, either way.
Then the ladies behind the counter started saying stuff like "there is a cash point / ATM outside" and that really started pissing everyone off so rather than argue it out with them he basically just said "we'll use somewhere else". They looked smug like it was going to trip us up for the rest of the day and he checked every place we went to and we only went in if the place took Amex. All of them worked fine. Shoezone closed at like 5 30 but if it didn't he would have gone back in and said to them "had y'all taken Amex we would have bought stuff from your store as it would have worked".
So anyway, we got back home and he turns on the TV, it is on the news network and headlines read that Visa screwed up and he is like "see, Amex really would have fixed this, ha ha ha ha". Smug jerk. His basic approach to life is "if they can't afford to take Amex as a payment method then they are not worth shopping at". Sadly, yesterday validated all of that for him.
