I stopped in tonight to get a few groceries. As I wrote elsewhere on this site, I've recently lost yet another office job -- again, with no prior warnings of any problems with attendance, appearance, attitude, work, etc. Nothing. Nada.
So I go to pay with my debit card ($16 + change) aaaand ... it's declined. I suddenly realize: it's the 15th of the month; my auto insurance has gone through! So I go to the mall where I work -- I've got $11 + change in one account and a negative balance in the other (hope I can get the money in tomorrow morning before it bounces back ... ) These bank machines have suddenly started dispensing $5 bills again (they used to, decades ago, and then they stopped).
So I pull $10 out and find another $3 in change in my car (plus smaller coins) so I go back to get some of the groceries I'd left behind. The ones I keep total ... $13.65. I said to the cashier "Oh, take the cheese out too; I have small change in my car but ..."
Instead ... he tossed the cheese back into the bag, and pulled out HIS debit card and paid the sixty-five cents.
I thanked him and told him how much that meant because of my recent job loss.
Oh, and he thinks they might be hiring too.
So I go to pay with my debit card ($16 + change) aaaand ... it's declined. I suddenly realize: it's the 15th of the month; my auto insurance has gone through! So I go to the mall where I work -- I've got $11 + change in one account and a negative balance in the other (hope I can get the money in tomorrow morning before it bounces back ... ) These bank machines have suddenly started dispensing $5 bills again (they used to, decades ago, and then they stopped).
So I pull $10 out and find another $3 in change in my car (plus smaller coins) so I go back to get some of the groceries I'd left behind. The ones I keep total ... $13.65. I said to the cashier "Oh, take the cheese out too; I have small change in my car but ..."
Instead ... he tossed the cheese back into the bag, and pulled out HIS debit card and paid the sixty-five cents.
I thanked him and told him how much that meant because of my recent job loss.
Oh, and he thinks they might be hiring too.
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