Witness to stupidity

[Dark Psion]

Unfortunately it was ahead of me in the line at the grocery store Sunday.

Mom and daughter have a cartfull of groceries and just as they finally get it all done, Mom pulls out her Welfare card, well half of it! and then she pulls out the other half and hands both the cashier.

Yes, she had broken her card, but still thinks she can use it!

The cashier gets that "isn't it my break time" look on her face and tell the Mom she can't use a broken card. And....she's off!

I used it yesterday
The account is still good
They said I could
Do you want my family to starve?
It is too much trouble to get a new one

Daughter (who seems to be on the fence between Punk and Goth, but hasn't decied which side to fall off on) is obviously embarased and wishes she was dead. (Yeah! Goth wins!)

Finally a manager comes over, actually listens to the cashier and turns to the lady and basically says "You want the groceries, give me a credit card!"

In the end, she wanted the groceries.

[batmoody]

I get people all the time who have really beat up food stamp cards. They wont read through the reader and we have to manually punch it in (That means I have to WORK! ) Anyways, its the same people over and over. And, really, despite it being more work, it also does take up alot of time to hand punch it in. Especially if I miss a number or enter it wrong, (....which happens alot ) Sometimes its hard to even read the acct # on the card, because of the coloring, and it being in such bad shape. I hate that they just shove it at you and expect you to make it so. Please, please please! Next time you go in to the "office" can you request a new card?

[symposes]

Why cant people who get things for free, take better care of them?
I dont have a single card in my wallet thats ever gotten damaged.
The only time ive ever come close was when i ran my wallet through the washer
I lost my paperish cards, namely my A+ cert card and Net+ Cert card, and all the other paper in my wallet. However, my money and plastic cards were fine.

"Oh my dog got ahold of it."

Put it in a dressor drawer or somethin!


If you cant respect the card, you shouldnt be allowed to use the privledge it grants. Period.

[Crafty1289]

Here in the UK, a lot of people have "electric token" meters in their homes. They have to go to a local shop and purchase £5 tokens (about $8) to feed into the meter. They have a magnetic swipe card for this - so it credits their account at the electricity company end and they know they haven't been stealing tokens or buying fakes. They come into our store all the time with swipe cards that do not work! Some of them are taped together with bits of sticky tape!

My theory on why they dont swipe is this: The ones that dont swipe are kept on top of the electric meter. What's inside an electric meter? A BIG FREAKIN MAGNET! What dont mag swipe cards like? Go figure.

I think the equivalent of welfare cards here is milk coupons - you get 4 liters or 7 pints with them, depending on whether the shop sells in pints or liters. These are coupons issued by the government to those who need them - single moms, deprived families. What I dont get is the state of some of these. They get issued once a month, and so you'd think they would all be in pretty decent shape. Nope. Some of them look like they've been trodden on and left in the gutter for 3 days.

And we got a "respectable" looking couple in once (past child-bearing age) who brought a load of chocolate and candy to the counter. I rung it up, came to about £10.50 The woman pulls out a wedge of milk coupons and said "how many do you need?" FFS bitch! If you're going to commit benefit fraud, dont to it in MY shop! If you dont need the milk coupons, DONT accept them! Its MY honest TAXes that paid for those milk coupons, and i DO NOT PAY TAXES TO STUFF YOUR GRANDKIDS WITH CANDY! Thats what I wanted to say anyway. I refused the milk coupons, and asked her to pay some other way, as a queue was forming. "XXX cashier accepted them" was her excuse! Strangely, she couldn't remember his name.

It made me really really angry. If she looked like she NEEDED the milk tokens and was pushing a baby in a pram, I would have let her pay for, say, essentials with them. But she didn't! The guy she was with looked respectable and like he had a good job. And benefit fraud is a pretty serious crime in this country.

[Becks]

Daughter (who seems to be on the fence between Punk and Goth, but hasn't decied which side to fall off on) is obviously embarased and wishes she was dead. (Yeah! Goth wins!)

Funniest thing I read today, and I read my horoscope!!!!!!!!!!

[Lace Neil Singer]

I think the equivalent of welfare cards here is milk coupons - you get 4 liters or 7 pints with them, depending on whether the shop sells in pints or liters. These are coupons issued by the government to those who need them - single moms, deprived families. What I dont get is the state of some of these. They get issued once a month, and so you'd think they would all be in pretty decent shape. Nope. Some of them look like they've been trodden on and left in the gutter for 3 days.

I hear ya on that one. Plus, I've had quite a few occasions when someone has tried to use a milk token for buying something other than milk... can't they read? It's printed on the token that you only use it to pay for liquid milk! I also remember this woman who blew up cuz I wouldn't let her use her token to pay for 2 tins of formala.

[SuperDan]

Indiana uses the cheapest possible cards and will not issue new ones very often. It's not laziness on the customers' parts that make manual entry about 50% of the time a fact of life, it's the cheapness of the state. Most of my customers who have worn out their cards will be kind enough to mention that they need to be manually entered and will hand it to me politely.

[Kogarashi]

Indiana uses the cheapest possible cards and will not issue new ones very often. It's not laziness on the customers' parts that make manual entry about 50% of the time a fact of life, it's the cheapness of the state. Most of my customers who have worn out their cards will be kind enough to mention that they need to be manually entered and will hand it to me politely.

Ditto on that one, and I have yet to see someone come in with a card that was folded or broken in half. I have seen some women grip their credit cards so hard when sliding them through the pinpads as to leave a slight bend down the middle. And then they wonder why the pinpad won't read the card. A gentle hand is all you need, really....