THESE GOD DAMN CATS!!!
My girlfriend and I tried another brand of cat food on our cats… NO GO!! They only like the EXPENSIVE STUFF….. They’ve been starving themselves for two days in protest!!
I couldn’t take it anymore so I went to Safeway at 11pm to get them their expensive-ass cat food.. (Snobs!)
Go to Safeway, get the food, check out…….and my DEBIT CARD IS DECLINED….
Now I just checked my bank account. I am no where NEAR $0……so what the hell is going on?
Try it again, and it says, ‘can not complete transaction!’
I think all the regular Safeway employees were slaughtered earlier today and the streetwalkers took over the store…Cos the guy ‘checking’ me out looked like he slept behind the store when his shift was over. He had the ‘homeless man hat’ dirt all over his clothes and face..and that big ‘homeless man jacket’……He wasn’t even wearing a Safeway apron…..or a name tag!!
So I have a homeless guy ‘checking’ my groceries, the dude in front of me used an EBT card and the woman behind me was making CAT NOISES at my cat food….I should be the least embarrassed out of this entire group, right? Well I was mortified…….. My card just got ‘declined’ in front of a LOT of people….Weird people….but a LOT of them!
….but then I remembered getting THIS letter from Bank Of America:
(Basically it says they f’d up in some way and my debit card number MAY have been slipped…..)
So I tell him to ’suspend’ the transaction, get in my car and drive 2 miles to a Bank Of America ATM… Activate the new card, and grab cash out, then head back to Safeway. (Lets not even talk about how I chased some guy all the way into The Madison Pub because he left his debit card in the ATM right next to me!)
When I get back to Safeway, I felt like I had to explain my situation to this guy…Like he was judging me or something..(realistically I wouldn’t be surprised if he was walking around with a dump in his pants…he looked THAT homeless).
Not only did I say: ‘oh, Bank Of America sent me a new Debit Card, I had to get it’….. I also used my new debit card for the purchase DESPITE the fact that I took $40 out of the ATM when I activated my card!!!!
I felt like I had to prove to this homeless looking checker that I DO have MONEY…..and I didn’t just run to my friends house and beg them at 11:00pm for $20 so I could buy cat food..
FML?? YES…FML!
*As I am writing this, ‘Toopie’ is eating for the first time in two days…snobby bitch!*
amazing how cats and checkers at safeway can make you feel bad…lol..i mean really…do they have THAT much power over us? yes….yes they do
- jenn - January 26, 2010 at 9:58 amHey Jordan, I had something similar happen right after Thanksgiving and apparently people in Canada took almost $1000 from my account. And it took me just over a month to get it back.
- Dan - January 26, 2010 at 10:01 amJenn-right?! It’s like trying on a pair of jeans, and then when they don’t fit, you feel the need to make an excuse to the person working the fitting room!!!!!
- Jordin Silver - January 26, 2010 at 10:07 amDan-WHAT?!?! What Bank do you have? That story is TEN TIMES more horrible. Wanna go to Canada and beat them up?!?!?
It was US Bank. I have since closed my account there and got a bank up here in Maine but it totally blows. I found out something was up when Dunkin Donuts declined my debit card. Not as much fun as your Safeway story.
- Dan - January 26, 2010 at 10:11 amDan-yeah but your story is way WORSE…. wow… Let’s find these people!!! I’m down!! We’ll get your money back AND take $1000 out on their ass
- Jordin Silver - January 26, 2010 at 10:17 amI love your cats! Let’s take pictures again soon!
- Nikko - January 26, 2010 at 11:03 amwhy do you even fucking care what these losers at Safeway even think? But I am sorry that this happened to you because it happened to me too. I forgot to activate my new card and I was in line with a pile of groceries and was declined. Not funny!
- Ken - January 26, 2010 at 7:32 pmOMGOSH…I had that same exact letter…only from another bank! Stupid SOBs who have to go rip other people off just because they know how to rig systems to copy numbers…*cringe*
- Emmy - February 11, 2010 at 2:26 amUS BANK did the same thing to me 1 month ago! Except, I didn’t get a letter and they just cancelled my card without calling me, writing a letter or anything. They said someone was trying to use my card but they never said who, what, when, where, why or how. The only thing I could think of was that I bought a book from Borders. However, I used their handy little computers to find the book I wanted from an outside seller because they didn’t have it. The outside seller was Half Price Books here in Washington State. Whatever…now I have a Flexperks card I can rack up miles if I use it as credit and not debit. That’s important. My wife yells at me when I don’t do it as credit and get the miles.
- Jacob - March 2, 2010 at 11:21 am