This summer I was officially broke.
I'd got myself a job but it was paid monthly in arrears, so for June and most of July I was scraping about near the bottom of my overdraft until I realised that as my first year of uni was now over, I could up the debt from £1200 to £1400 and buy myself some a few things before I was due to be paid.

Being a 19 year old girl, I headed for Boots to stock up on lip gloss, eyeliner, the works really.

I got to the till with rather a lot of stuff, including a bottle of perfume, a few other things and some stupidly expensive lip plumping serum (well if I was good with my money I'd not have over a grand of debt!) which rang up to about £90.

I was having a nice chat with the cashier who packed my bag, then I picked up my things, and handed my debit card to her to pay.

** Payment Rejected. Insufficient Funds.**

Then I realise, they told me my overdraft would be extended the following Monday.
I apologise profusely, and tell her that I have to go straight to the bank to sort this out, and then rush out of the shop because I'm about to be late for work.
When I arrived in the office and put my things on the desk, I was confronted with the boots bag, full of shiny new things.

The cashier had de-security tagged it all as I was 'paying' and no one had so much as batted an eyelid.
The most annoying part was that when I borrowed cash from someone in the office (just in case) and took half an hour off to go to the bank and then head back to the shop, I had trouble paying because the cashier was next to the supervisors office so she wouldn't admit she'd made any kind of mistake!
(Completely Underwhelmed, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 14:30, closed)

I really like this story.
It makes a change from all the "I was only three", "I felt like they owed me something" plus you were man (woman) enough to go back and try and pay for it :)
(jamesthegill is not a fish, Sat 12 Jan 2008, 14:48, )