Would you be embarrassed if...

Dudess · 29-02-2008 01:14PM

Meh, most people don't retain such specifics the way you do.

rubadub · 29-02-2008 01:14PM

About 2 months ago I was at the checkout, put my stuff through and on the last few items I copped on I had no wallet. I had a bunch of coins in my backpack and told the guy to stop as I would have to put stuff back. I was counting out the coins, around €8 in coins, all my stuff was only worth around €12.

So I am there deciding what to keep and what to put back, then the woman behind be (well dressed, maybe 50) takes out her credit card and offers to pay for my stuff! I sort of laugh and say "no thanks, I just left my wallet at home, it is not that important". She then seemed sort of embarrassed, bit awkward for everybody!

I was then outside unlocking my bike and she came over to me and said "sorry I hope I didn't embarrass you, its just it was only a small bit of money", I told her it was fine and thanks for the offer and that I wasn't embarrassed. I suppose it did look like she was offering charity in a way, which sort of infers she thought I looked like I needed it.

I heard a joke like that before, go to the supermarket with just enough small coins to get a 6pack of beer. Go to the checkout with nappies babyfood and the beer. Then tell the cashier to take back the nappies and food saying in a slurred voice "ah sure the little fecker will be grand". Then watch the face of disgust on everyone around!

Many years ago in my teens I was sitting across from burgerking on grafton street. I had been thrown out for drinking beer and was waiting on my mates. I was sitting there plastered, can in hand. Along comes a woman and hands me money telling me to get something to eat, I start laughing and hand it back saying "can't I'm barred", she was shaking her head like "oh the poor fella is homeless AND cant even get a bite to eat"

ntlbell · 29-02-2008 01:15PM

Dudess wrote: »

Meh, most people don't retain such specifics the way you do.

Thank you

xxx

lezizi · 29-02-2008 01:15PM

That has happened to me loads of times, it is annoying but I wouldn't be embarassed

seamus · 29-02-2008 01:18PM

With the exception of walking out with tags on, they've already happened to me and I wasn't embarrassed in the slightest.

In the case of the card, it got refused because my payment hadn't gone through yet. I told the cashier to hold the items and I went out and got the cash to pay for them.

In the case of not having the cash, I put the stuff back and bought it the next time I was in the shop.

I don't see why you'd be embarrassed. I couldn't give a **** if someone thinks I can't afford something.

Fwaggle · 29-02-2008 01:18PM

I don't know if embarassed is the right way to describe it, but I'm pretty self conscious and I hate the thought of people looking at me (I know!) so when the tag is left on clothes or whatever and an alarm sounds as I'm leaving a shop, I am very aware that everybody turns round to look and my face goes bright red. Then the fact that I know my face has gone red makes it even worse. I blush at anything though

Latchy · 29-02-2008 01:20PM

Real paronioa is when you think every middle aged female is the store detective and she is following you , and you only

Dudess · 29-02-2008 01:22PM

Well that's fair enough. Yeah it's uncomfortable when everyone's suddenly focusing on you.
There was a discussion on the credit card/Laser thing on some phone-in show and all these people were saying stuff like "my card was rejected and I just wanted the ground to open up and swallow me". Laughable. Are they so self-absorbed that they really think total strangers give that much of a sh1t? Ooh maybe it looks like they're trying to commit fraud! Or... worse still... they don't have enough money in the card, so they might be... god forbid... a bit poor?!

ntlbell · 29-02-2008 01:24PM

Dudess wrote: »

Well that's fair enough. Yeah it's uncomfortable when everyone's suddenly focusing on you.
There was a discussion on the credit card/Laser thing on some phone-in show and all these people were saying stuff like "my card was rejected and I just wanted the ground to open up and swallow me". Laughable. Are they so self-absorbed that they really think total strangers give that much of a sh1t? Ooh maybe it looks like they're trying to commit fraud! Or... worse still... they don't have enough money in the card, so they might be... god forbid... a bit poor?!

But total strangers are sitting on the internet discussing what the total stranger wanted to happen when her card was rejected?

Hmm.

Embarrassing is a few of your friends calling over the guards letting them in and your in the sitting room with a finger up your jaxy.

Not having a CC rejected.

seamus · 29-02-2008 01:25PM

Dudess wrote: »

Or... worse still... they don't have enough money in the card, so they might be... god forbid... a bit poor?!

People don't realise that unless the person behind you in the queue is the English Queen there isn't a person in the world who hasn't been a little short of cash once in a while. Nobody cares if today is your day or if the bank's system has just ****ed up.

rubadub · 29-02-2008 01:26PM

ntlbell wrote: »

Embarrassing is a few of your friends calling over the guards letting them in and your in the sitting room with a finger up your jaxy.

Link to photo or it didn't happen.

togster · 29-02-2008 01:26PM

Dudess wrote: »

Meh, most people don't retain such specifics the way you do.

Some people have very little to do :rolleyes:

ntlbell · 29-02-2008 01:27PM

togster wrote: »

Some people have very little to do :rolleyes:

Like talk about people with little to do thinking they did something that has little to do with what they were doing?

Bang on son.

Latchy · 29-02-2008 01:27PM

It'a all about keeping up appearences with ie, the jones's symtom but even very rich people are known to shop for bargins (and why not )

ntlbell · 29-02-2008 01:28PM

rubadub wrote: »

Link to photo or it didn't happen.

A picture would be priceless but I'm not sure in 96 camera phones/cam's were that common place in Tallaght.

Dudess · 29-02-2008 01:29PM

seamus wrote: »

People don't realise that unless the person behind you in the queue is the English Queen there isn't a person in the world who hasn't been a little short of cash once in a while. Nobody cares if today is your day or if the bank's system has just ****ed up.

Yeah, it's quite idiotic. More of an older generation thing maybe, but I have heard younger people claiming they'd be embarrassed that people might think they couldn't afford something.

Dinter · 29-02-2008 01:30PM

ntlbell wrote: »

You young scuts don't know how lucky you are with your fancy schmancy credit cards. Actual currency was good enough for your parents but you young whippersnappers have to get all mechanical about it.

I remember once during the Emergency I went into the greengrocers to buy an apple. However it tuned out I only had one bob and as I knew the glimmerman would be around later I had to make a choice. See back in those days the only person who'd lend you money would be the pawn shop and that was a terrible faith to be reduced to. But now you have your ipods and suddenly currency is too good for you.

I can make my pension stretch most weeks by being careful. Being careful is not the same as being mean despite what those ungrateful children of mine might say. In my sheltered housing I turn the lights on only for five minutes at a time. Any more than that and it wears out the bulb. The sun was good enough for our forefathers and it's good enough for me.

I wear thick, shabby clothing at all times and that keeps me warm enough that I don't need a fire. Have you seen the price of coal? I decided many years ago to never suffer embarrassment by withdrawing into my home and never leaving again. It was around the time that they allowed contraception into Ireland. If God didn't want us to procreate he'd have made us sterile. Procreation was good enough for our parents and it's good enough for me.

Now I spend my days rooting around people's profiles desperate to find some common ground.

Honesty at last.

togster · 29-02-2008 01:30PM

ntlbell wrote: »

Like talk about people with little to do thinking they did something that has little to do with what they were doing?

:rolleyes: you're embarrasing yourself

ntlbell · 29-02-2008 01:31PM

togster wrote: »

:rolleyes: you're embarrasing yourself

It was the finger up my jaxy that did it wasn't it?

ntlbell · 29-02-2008 01:32PM

Dinter wrote: »

Honesty at last.

Haha.

Did you spend all night writing that?

Solid.

phantom_lord · 29-02-2008 01:32PM

Dudess wrote: »

... your laser/credit card was rejected (for whatever reason) at the till?

Or if you were attempting to take money out of an ATM machine and a message came up advising you that you had insufficient funds?

Or if you were getting a few groceries and you discovered you didn't have enough cash so you had to put stuff back?

not gonna happen since I'm a balling pokar playa.

poor_people_lol

Dudess · 29-02-2008 01:32PM

People, stop feeding the troll.

Dinter, no personal abuse.

ntlbell · 29-02-2008 01:33PM

Dudess wrote: »

People, stop feeding the troll.

Dinter, no personal abuse.

Stop calling me a troll.

I'm trying to have an adult conversation here.

:mad:

holla.

ntlbell · 29-02-2008 01:35PM

phantom_lord wrote: »

not gonna happen since I'm a balling pokar playa.

poor_people_lol

Heh, your so busto

phantom_lord · 29-02-2008 01:38PM

you're confusing me with reggie.

rubadub · 29-02-2008 01:39PM

ntlbell wrote: »

A picture would be priceless but I'm not sure in 96 camera phones/cam's were that common place in Tallaght.

how much for a order of ribs?

Corruptedmorals · 01-03-2008 01:23AM

... your laser/credit card was rejected (for whatever reason) at the till?

No. In work, when on tills, it happens ALL the time and the person always look like it's the worst thing that ever happened to them. The salesperson does not care, why are people so concerned that they do? The queue doesn't know what's going on either. You should actually be worried that it got declined. Far worse though are the feckers who've bent their cards/forgot the pin (the arrogant ones, 'Don't know my pin, so you've to swipe it' so the cards have to be swiped/typed manually which the banks hate and force us to get manager authorisation.

Or if the alarm sounded when you left a shop because the security tags on your purchases hadn't been desensitised?

Well that is embarrassing. Everyone looks at you and security check your bag. My shop doesn't have security barriers (has tags though) so we get people coming back in the next day or from different outlets that don't have barriers either. I don't apologise, I always check, I know I'm not the idiot that did it. It's usually harrassed newbie Christmas staff stuck on tills for 7 hours or so that do this.

Or if you were attempting to take money out of an ATM machine and a message came up advising you that you had insufficient funds?

No. Take the card, walk away.

Or if you were getting a few groceries and you discovered you didn't have enough cash so you had to put stuff back?

Slightly, if the queue is long or you know someone.

BDubliner · 01-03-2008 07:49AM

The credit card being maxed out at the counter wouldnt bother me in the slighest. Although having the alarm go off as your exiting a shop is. The alarm went off one day as I was exiting and it turned out to be my fault as I mistakenly forgot to pay for two pairs of womens knickers and a pair of hi tec runners and had also forgot that I had stuffed them up my top. How embarressing!

01-03-2008 08:12AM

Dudess wrote: »

... your laser/credit card was rejected (for whatever reason) at the till?

Yes, cause it happened once for some reason, but I had a different card and they took it.

Dudess wrote:

Or if the alarm sounded when you left a shop because the security tags on your purchases hadn't been desensitised?

Yes, this happened once too, but I had a receipt for all that I had purchased, so they let me go after checking.

Dudess wrote:

Or if you were attempting to take money out of an ATM machine and a message came up advising you that you had insufficient funds?

Yes it's happened, cause I'm a starving student. But no, I was not embarrassed, cause I could care less about an ATM (No sarcastic face popped up on the screen along with a wagging finger saying naughty, naughty, or whatever).

Plus, I even bounced a check once, and the US bank covered for me but charged me a big fat fee (I have overdraft protection). Days before I had deposited a check from Ireland and it took longer than I thought it would to clear, so the money was there, but they would not let me access it. So I was not embarrassed, but rather a bit miffed for them sitting on my money, taking advantage of the cashflow, charging me a fee, along with all the hassles.

Malteaser! · 01-03-2008 12:40PM

Dudess wrote: »

... your laser/credit card was rejected (for whatever reason) at the till?

This happened to me not so long ago in a petrol station, I wasn't embarrassed, I knew there was enough money in my account so the fault had to be with the card. It was, I had put my expired laser card back into my purse by mistake a few days earlier and only copped it when yer women could't get it to work. Thankfully my boyfriend was with me so he paid for the petrol instead!!

Or if the alarm sounded when you left a shop because the security tags on your purchases hadn't been desensitised?

I think this has happened to everyone, no need to be embarrassed about it, it happens!

Or if you were attempting to take money out of an ATM machine and a message came up advising you that you had insufficient funds?

Lol, this one has happened way too many times for me to still be embarrassed about!:rolleyes: It doesn't bother me coz no one else can see the screen, for all anyone else knows I was just checking my balance!

Or if you were getting a few groceries and you discovered you didn't have enough cash so you had to put stuff back?

I've never had to put anything back but recently I did a big shop and I grossly underestimated just how big it was. Anyway, I didn't have enough cash on me and ended up being short a euro or two. I had to fish out all the coppers from the bottom of my bag to try and make up the difference, I wasn't embarrassed because I didn't have enough money it was more because I was the big eejit who was holding up the whole line!!

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