Back when I was a scabby student
I was enjoying rinsing my first credit card. I did this buying paying for a holiday that I could ill afford.

As is the way with these things repayment time rolled around and so I girded my loins and made my way to my local branch of Gash West to pay off the £250 I owed them. This was remember a new experience for me and I wasn’t sure of the procedure, and as it turns out neither was the till monkey serving me.

I gave him my card and he rang up the amount that I owed, I confirmed the amount and all was going well, he printed off a piece of paper and asked me to sign it which I duly did, he thanked me stamped the paper and handed me the payment confirmation slip.

The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that a fundamental part of this transaction is missing, yes well done you at the back, I hadn’t actually given him any money. In an ideal world my brain would work faster than my mouth, in an ideal world I would know when to keep my stupid mouth shut, but this isn’t an ideal world and before I could stop myself I had blurted out, “but I haven’t given you the money yet!”

Stupid, stupid, stupid fucking mogoloidal sparktard!

“Oh god!” the teller exclaimed “that was close!”

“YES, IT WAS”, I replied through gritted teeth and tears of frustration.

And just in case I didn’t feel stupid enough he added, “You know there would have been nothing we could have done to recover the money…”
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 14:22, 1 reply)

Yeah...
... but on the other hand it would have come out of his wages and if he was a relative newbie it could have got him sacked.
(gordonjcp, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 19:00, closed)