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AIBU?

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In thinking theres nothing more humiliating..

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whimsicalmess · 14/03/2013 14:24

than having your card decline...several times, due to lack of funds in front of a whole shop.

I was buying some pizza, drumsticks etc for a birthday tea for my DP I had to put everything back,

I just want someone to really piss me off so I would be justified in hitting something/crying.

Is there anything more humiliating?

OP posts:

greenfolder · 14/03/2013 17:33

So, to summarise

The 0NE advantage of being a woman is that you will have been humiliated so much at some point that a mere card decline can be brushed off.

MunchMunch · 14/03/2013 17:37

I worked on the tills a few years ago and a customer tried to pay for her shopping with her card which was declined a few times, she was mortified and asked if the machine gave a reason as to why, I told her it just says card declined. She kept saying that there was money in her account and I kept saying not to worry these things happen all the time. Any way, she left my till, we had a ATM by the doors so she went and got a printed balance and came back to show me she really did have the funds. She really did have more than enough so it wasn't a case of no money.

Zara1984 · 14/03/2013 17:45

OP this happened to me when I bought myself lunch once to make me feel better cos my arsehole bf dumped me. The staff felt sorry for me and let me eat the meal anyway, I was mortified and never went back!

purrpurr · 14/03/2013 17:55

smeeeheee Am getting to the heifer stage now, so have resorted to wearing the mammoth maternity bras that turn your boob into a giant sweaty monoboob in about 5 seconds, and seem to trap crumbs like a toaster tray.

Oh my god just laughed so hard I nearly weed and vommed all at once, the giant sweaty monoboob bit and toaster tray bit - OMG! Thanks for the laugh :)

gail734 · 14/03/2013 18:07

Don't get embarrassed by the declined card. Last time it happened to me (in Asda) I calmly told the checkout lady to suspend the sale, which she did. I walked out of the front door and went to the cashpoint about 5 metres away. I withdrew cash (from the same account!) and then went in and paid. I knew I had money because I had just been paid, but the point I'm trying to make is that sometimes the machines just don't work, or can't read your card.

thezebrawearspurple · 14/03/2013 18:08

This happened to me recently, my card was refused and I was embarrassed but thought I must have run out of funds because of loads of bills being paid that week and me overspending so recovered from the shame to go back in the following day (payday) to the same shop, picking up the same pile of clothes, being served by the same sales assistant and was refused again. I was mortified. It was actually a bank error but I haven't been able to go back to that shop!

gail734 · 14/03/2013 18:15

OH, and if you'd enjoy an embarrassing moment story, I have a colleague who hurriedly retrieved her nice, cosy Puffa jacket from her bedroom floor just as she was rushing out to work. It wasn't until halfway through her train journey that she looked down to see that yesterday's lacy pants were stuck to a Velcro fastener on the front!

INeverSaidThat · 14/03/2013 18:21

ukatlast

Yup, I am definitely for real but, umm, thanks for asking

My DH and I share an account so we have had instances where I have paid for something online in the UK, been living in South Africa and my DH has made a purchase from an airport in, say, China. We were expats in several countries for years but this type of activity would still frequently lead to my account being frozen despite the banks knowing where we were living etc.

I have another card so not being able to pay has never been a problem.

I recently had my account frozen due to multiple small purchases via Amazon . This was just before Christmas and I normally buy a lot of things from Amazon so I have no idea why that was flagged as potentially fraudulent.
Sometimes we have our account frozen if we try and move money from one account to another due to money laundering legislation. Again, this is perfectly understandable but hard to avoid if you are moving from country to country.

It is never an issue of how much cash we have in the account.

It seriously doesn't bother me one bit if my card gets turned down even in John Lewis and I have never felt shop staff were judging me.

JudgeJodie · 14/03/2013 18:25

I once came on at work and didn't have anything with me. It was nearly lunch time so I stuck some tissue in my knickers to make do. I had trousers on. Went out at lunch to the chemist and came straight back to the ladies, whipped my kecks down and the tissue had gone
I tried to casually look around the office where I had been but never found it. I still to this day don't know how or where it came out of my trouser leg.
Also never told anyone that before!
And last week I went shopping with hubby's bank card at the supermarket and it was declined. He had given me his expired card. I was embarrassed but thankfully had my card with me too so could pay. As soon as I told him what had happened he remembered he had got a new card. Dingbat!

OhDearieDearieMe · 14/03/2013 18:28

In thinking theres nothing more humiliating...............

Than finding out, in the middle of Morrison's, that actually, it wasn't a fart..........

Until this has happened to you, you know nothing of pain.

tiredemma · 14/03/2013 19:02

I also walked around disney world with the days previous knickers hanging out the bottom of my shorts. They had failed to detach themselves properly the night before. We got to magic kingdom at 'magic hour' of 7am. About 3 hours later dp is walking behind me and gesticulating wildly. My knickers hanging out down leg.

Again the shame.

Pixel · 14/03/2013 19:09

Judgejodie the same thing happened to me at work, I never found out if the loo paper had fallen out in the office somewhere before I left at lunchtime, or if it fell out in the street on the way to the chemist.

Ineversaidthat Dh had a call from his bank just before Christmas to say they were stopping his card as it had been used a lot lately. He said "yes, by me - it's Christmas" but they still stopped it. We were on the bus into town to do the last bits of our Christmas shopping at the time so that was a real pain. Could have at least saved ourselves the bus fare if we'd known earlier!

FancyPuffin · 14/03/2013 19:25

I see your stories of humiliation and raise you with;

Having a very hot and steamy night of sex with a man and realising the next morning that at some point my period had arrived.

Realisation due to said mans face resembling an butchers apron complete with blood clot tear drop.

Readers, I ran away.

flyingspaghettimonster · 14/03/2013 19:28

I live abroad, and my natwest card gets a hope on it every single time i buy anything online. So say it is mothers day back home... I send Thorntons choccy to my mum. Next day i go grocery shopping and the card is declined. I have told.my bank till I am blue in the face that it is normal for me to buy things on UK websites and to stop holding my funds... They said there is no way to make a note on the account as it looks suspicious to the computer program. Grrr. I am so used to it that it no longer embarrassed me much.

Now for embarrassing... Our firstborn was a real puker. She could projectile vomit like something out of the exorcist. One day, on a packed commuter train out of London, i breastfed her and she hurled it all back over me, coating me and herself liberally like the racist old bat in little Britain. I calmly handed her to my husband and made my way through all the business men standing in the aisle, to the pushchaor for the changing bag, then back again to our seats. All without noticing the horrified stares of the whole carriage... Who had to watch my bare breast, dripping baby puke, swaying its wobbly way past their smart suits...

INeverSaidThat · 14/03/2013 19:32

fancypuffin . You win. That is funny terrible.

Corygal · 14/03/2013 19:39

My pants fell down at the tube barrier.

Worst - the best pair, real silk, and I had to scuttle off commando as they were kicked round Temple station by stampedes of city traders.

Bloody bankers ruining our lives.

tiredemma · 14/03/2013 19:40

Ha ha ha. Fancy puffin that its the funniest thing I have ever read on here. Vile.

Uppatreecuppatea · 14/03/2013 19:44

Smeehee...... At least you didn't scoff the chicken!

iamabadger · 14/03/2013 19:44

My idiot bank won't allow me to inform them I'm going away, I have to use it, it gets declined and I have to call them to unblock the card. Very annoying, especially as it costs a bloody fortune to both call them and use the card abroad.

Anifrangapani · 14/03/2013 19:52

A few weeks after ds was born and not sleeping well I had just got the little sod off to sleep when the police helicopter started hovering over the house. In my defence I was sleep deprived but the police and the joy rider who chose our street to drive down will forever be scarred by the sight of a shreiking woman dressed in nothing more than a milk stained t-shirt.

Invitations to our neighbours houses dried up very quickly.

MummytoKatie · 14/03/2013 20:14

These are brilliant!

Feel confusingly disappointed that I don't have any this good!

Snoopingforsoup · 14/03/2013 20:16

spaghettimonster that was hilarious

fancypuffin ditto

Corygal, so sorry to have really belly laughed at your misfortune.

I love this thread.

Zara1984 · 14/03/2013 20:52

Hyperventilating @ puffin

Zara1984 · 14/03/2013 20:57

A couple more mortifying things that have happened to me:

When I was about 14, standing in school assembly, waiting for teachers to walk in, I tried to hold in a fart, but it came out, and because I was holding it in it was LOUD and RIPPLING

My friend getting drunk at my wedding and telling all of DH's relatives that DH and I had drunken sex in bushes by a motorway the night we met, and accordingly got insect bites all over our arses

secretofcrickleyhall · 14/03/2013 21:05

I farted at work yesterday I was running downthe corridor as I knew it would stink but a colleague shouted me back and I farted. It smelled like a devil's breakfast of egg and shit and two other colleagues came out of somewhere and sniffed and said "gosh, what is that terrible smell?" I slunk in the office but they all know it was me.

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