Casino hotel gift shop.

I'm in line behind this nit who is trying to buy a pack of cigarettes with 87 cents in change and a gift card that he says is worth $4. The clerk dutifully rings up the split transaction, with great effort, but the gift card is declined. Twice.

I suggest to the guy maybe he could go without. He says, "Look at the big shot with the big mouth." I say, "Sir, I -- think -- you're -- nuts." Three people in line behind me chime in in agreement.

whoa u can buy a pack of cigs with $4.87?


they like $10 here

Not sure how that is stingy, but in any case you are a douchenozzle for offering condescending and uninvited "advice." I would have told you to go **** yourself.

You can both be right.

In Aus they are mostly over 20 bucks a pack so best part of 1 $US a stick

Preemptively complaining about some moronic injustice that hasn't happened to you should guarantee that it does.

Hes not being stingy, hes broke. Hes not doing anything wrong unless he refuses to leave. You are being a **** tho.

We were like 15 and generally dicks to many people. Douchenozzle, I like that word.

That's the part that goes in the vagina.

No, the guy holding up the line trying to pass off a bogus gift card is the douchenozzle, and the guy's "advice" is just a slightly-nicer way of telling him to GTFO.

You see it a lot at ATMs in Vegas: a card is declined, and the cardholder re-attempts it over and over and over while you wait behind him.

It reminds me of the James Bond picture where Bond kills the villain by cutting his own shoelaces, causing the villain to fall out of an airplane. The villain is seen falling 10,000 feet, clutching the shoe like a security blanket all the way down. The shoe isn't going to save him; and credit cards don't magically start working the 2nd or 3rd or 5th time.

Hey, I ain't Rockefeller. I've been tapped out, declined, etc. My time is valuable so GTFO after the first decline. Call the number on the back of the card.

A+ reference to a little appreciated Bond film.

i've had cards not go through on the first swipe but go through on the second. i wouldn't swipe 5 times though.

also for some reason my friend's total rewards comp card never works on the first swipe and he always has to have it swiped again. it's not the physical card, just something weird with his account.

Yeah twice is reasonable.

I used my debit card at a restaurant in Lafayette, LA. Server comes back and says he tried it like 10 times and it was declined every time. Later I call the bank, and as I had suspected, they had blocked the card because I don't normally spend time in Louisiana. I checked my activity online, and found that the idiot server hadn't exaggerated - ELEVEN debits and eleven credits for the amount of the tab.

I have to pay $1 for a decline. I'd be perturbed.

Yeah stores get charged by their credit card processors for each decline. Run that twice tops and then gtfo.

If the person is trying to do the same thing over and over and keeps getting declined they are an idiot, but I've had times where I was not sure of the pin on a card I don't normally use or was not sure if I should use credit/debit/checking/cash advance, etc... and kept trying different options hoping one would get approved so I could keep degen'ing after tapping out. People are going to make a few attempts before calling the number on the back of the card or giving up (or could even be trying multiple cards without you noticing, or different amounts hoping to get just below their max limit/balance as many idiots don't know what they are even allowed to take out). Obviously, this is a behavior that happens more frequently in a casino than at your standard ATM as people are going to be attempting cash withdrawals they have never made before. I'm also not sure how that is considered stingy as they will be paying a considerable fee for their money if it goes through.


Now this is crazy! Same as if you use your card in a way that you know works and it gets rejected, call the number on back of the card to get it approved (although it is only recently that many cards have started blocking transactions at point of sale pro-actively).

many posts not about stinginess

Including yours!

Back when I was working the IT Help Desk, a couple of us along with the System Administrators had to be in the office at 6am on a Saturday to move all the servers to an off-site location. Everybody is salary, so nobody is getting overtime for this. The VP of Net Ops smooths things over with the promise of breakfast from Chick-Fil-A.

There's 8 of us, so he buys 6 breakfast burritos and cuts them in half. To this day I regret legitimizing his move by eating one.

Would have thrown it at him.

Similar situation happened a few years ago at a friend's cottage we went to. They told us to bring all the booze and do breakfast/lunch and they'd take care of dinner. For dinner there were 8 of us and they served 7 freezer burnt burgers that looked god awful. We all looked at each other awkwardly wondering what to do until the host grabbed one, cut it in half, then grabbed a full one for himself, lol. Luckily they were as terrible as they looked so grabbing a half and not finishing it wasn't a regret.

For breakfast I brought some killer aged bacon that was like $15/lb, but of course woke up late so everyone had eaten already. Few cold scrambled eggs left, but no bacon.. whatever my fault for waking up late, right? Later on I spy the other half of the bacon tightly wrapped in the freezer for "later". RAGE.

Fyp

lol, true it's hard to waste CFA. Would have quit on the spot though, that's a sign of bigger problems.

Surely you grabbed the bacon just before you left?