Sometimes WE are the Stupid Customers!

[Miss Fatale]

I live in a small-ish town. Intown, the bus is free. If you take the bus out of town to one of the transit centers, you have to pay.

The first time I did this, I paid my fare with no problem. On my way home from the transit center, I got on the bus and asked, "Do I need to pay the fare since I'm going in to town?"

The bus driver sort of stared at me and was like, "Yeah, you need to pay."

Duh, I don't know what I was thinking.

[HYHYBT]

Seems like a fair (no pun intended) question, if you've never done it before. After all, toll bridges often only charge one way.

[wolfie]

After all, toll bridges often only charge one way.

Very common on bridges with one end in New Jersey. Yes, I've heard comments over the CB speculating as to why this is. I've refrained from replying with a comment about the Peace Bridge and Queenston/Lewiston Bridge being the same way.

One time when grocery shopping, when I got to the register I had my cash and Air Miles card out - OOPS! It wasn't my Air Miles card, it was my debit card.

[Merriweather]

Very common on bridges with one end in New Jersey. Yes, I've heard comments over the CB speculating as to why this is. I've refrained from replying with a comment about the Peace Bridge and Queenston/Lewiston Bridge being the same way.

One time when grocery shopping, when I got to the register I had my cash and Air Miles card out - OOPS! It wasn't my Air Miles card, it was my debit card.

When we lived in Wales in the 90's, toll was paid across the Severn (between England and Wales) only when headed west. Which leads to all sorts of jokes when coming back from visits to England about paying the admission fee into Wales.

[Gizmo]

One of the cashiers at the local corner store has got so used to me in the morning giving her my work ID that she almost starts saying "that is your work ID.." before I even hand it over instead of my store points card. /facepalm!

[MoonCat]

I live in a small-ish town. Intown, the bus is free. If you take the bus out of town to one of the transit centers, you have to pay.

The first time I did this, I paid my fare with no problem. On my way home from the transit center, I got on the bus and asked, "Do I need to pay the fare since I'm going in to town?"

The bus driver sort of stared at me and was like, "Yeah, you need to pay."

Duh, I don't know what I was thinking.

Not that odd of a question. We used to have to pay extra when the bus went into the suburbs. Coming back, we had to pay the city fare plus the extra. BUT, if you had a monthly one-zone (city only) pass....the bus drivers could not decide if you could use just the pass, or if you had to pay the suburban fee also, or pay only the suburban fee. I once got 3 different answers on the same day!

[dragon_wings]

Today roomie and I went to Aldi's. I'd never been but remembered what my ex and our roommate had said about the quarter for the cart and bags or boxes, and roomie hadn't been in years.
So we get all our stuff and put it on the belt and the cashier notices we have some stuff in a milk crate and mentions we need to take them out. And when she starts ringing us up I go to start bagging and she asks me to please wait, she'd hate to hit me with something, and they provide a place to take our groceries and bag or box them. Oops. I felt dumb even if I'd never been there before.

[Chromatix]

Not that odd of a question. We used to have to pay extra when the bus went into the suburbs. Coming back, we had to pay the city fare plus the extra. BUT, if you had a monthly one-zone (city only) pass....the bus drivers could not decide if you could use just the pass, or if you had to pay the suburban fee also, or pay only the suburban fee. I once got 3 different answers on the same day!

Over here we have a wonderful integrated transport system in the capital area. About half a dozen municipalities in the area tie all of their public transport into the HSL system, which includes smartcard ticketing and one ticket for as many changes as you need.

The tickets are, however, zoned. The borders of the zones are the municipal borders (except for one small municipality which is included in another's zone), so they are easy to remember and marked on nearly all maps. There are a number of different combination tickets that let you travel between zones - the "region" ticket gives you Helsinki, Vantaa and Espoo, the "outer region" ticket gives you Kirkkonummi, Kerava, Vantaa and Espoo but *not* Helsinki, and the "full region" ticket gives you all five zones.

The question of which ticket to get if you hold a season ticket for one zone but need to travel to another is simple - you need to buy a regional combination ticket as normal. It is crossing the border while on board the transport that triggers this requirement. If you happen to live near the border, you can save quite a lot of money by walking or cycling a bit further.

The wrinkle comes when you hold a "region" or "outer region" season ticket but need to travel across multiple municipalities to one of the zones you are not covered for. In that case it is sufficient to buy the opposite type of region ticket, covering the border crossing that your season ticket doesn't cover, rather than the more expensive "full region" ticket.

However, if you want to travel to outside the HSL area entirely, you must buy a full ticket from origin to destination. The railway, however, helpfully prices all tickets starting (or ending) within the HSL area the same. I'm not sure what the policy is for the long-distance buses.

[Teefies2]

On my lunch break, I zipped over to the Wendy's drive-through and ordered "A junior cheese whopper no pickles small fries and a Dr Pepper"

Silence from the speaker (for about the count of 10) "Debbie, is that you?"

So yes, not only did I order the WRONG item for the place I was in, one of my friends was working drive-through that night.

That was over 5 months ago and she STILL won't let me live it down

[HeroOfNotBashingSkulls]

Oh Lordy....

I joined a new bank and had my card a while ago. I went to use the card and selected "Savings" instead of "Chequeing" due to my last job having direct deposit. I typed in my PIN correctly, but it kept declining. I was so confused! Did I type my PIN wrong? Did I type it as 1423 instead of 2431? No? How about 3142? No... Maybe 6587? No!

So that kept up for a few days. I even looked at my paperwork to see if I had the PIN right. It was 1423! Then, one miraculous day;

I hit Chequeing. YAY! MONIES!

:P

[smfrazier]

I've tried to use my employee discount card at other stores without thinking.

[Wild Mage]

I was selling back books to the university book store when they asked for my ID and I realized I didn't have one. Now, I usually have my Drivers License and school ID but somehow had managed to send them both back to my hometown two hours away with about half my dorm things my mom had picked up that weekend. I left my books with the sales girl while I tore apart my room looking for them and finally 20 mintues later had to sheepishly admit that I had neither. Fortunately, she took pity on me and accepted my work/volunteer ID badge from the local hospital since it was a picture ID and I had my receipts. It was more of a brain fart than major suck but I took up a lot of time and hassle.

[Zaiida]

Light poles and kerbs usually get me, I always go splat or bonk. Last month I went splat into a parked car . Car was fine and just a bruised knee.

[HotelMinion]

Just last night I ordered at McDonald's the number 3 with no mayo. The guy was like "that the chicken mcnuggets" I was like huh? Then I took another look and said " oops I meant the number 6 I was looking at the wrong number!" The guy didn't even say anything like it happened all the time. Probably does. But I still felt like a dumbass. Lol

[Beki710]

In the UK Boots, (major pharmacy chain) loyalty card is a very similar colour to my drivers license, definitely more than one time when I've been ID'd handed the loyalty card over.

I accidentally walked into a bed shop window instead of the automatic door right next to it. I couldn't stop laughing as we went round the shop even through the sales lady's pitch. She must have thought I was very rude or absolutely bonkers...