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Ok I don't know if any of you
have ever seen these things before, but Coke gives out these pre-paid
cards every now and then at work. You see these cards are worth 5 dollars
and can be used anywhere that American Express is accepted. That's great
you would think. 5 Dollars that can be used basically everywhere in
the world. Well, this is a crock of shit and I'll tell you why.
I went into a Wal Mart the
other day and of course decided to load up on $3 beef jerkey. I got
all the great kinds, my mouth was watering at the thought of ripping
into all those bags of jerkey. Hell I spent about $15 on jerkey alone.
That is about the most I ever spent on that.
Anyway I went over to the friendly
(sarcasm) cashier and was going to check out. There's only one problem,
I had only $12. Now I could have done the obvious thing and just given
one back of jerkey back, but no. I dug through my wallet and found myself
the 5 point pre paid card that I had been given. That is exactly what
I needed to get all the jerkey. So I handed the card to the lady and
than it was scanned. After about a minute it denied the card. So she
tried something else.
I sat and stared at an authorization
in progress screen for about 5 minutes. It felt like forever. Not only
that, but I was really in the mood for some jerkey and this was not
what I needed. I had the money right on the card, why in the hell does
it have to be so difficult? I just couldn't wait any longer.
Just as I was about to surrender
a bag of jerkey it went through and I got my discount. Of course the
friendly (sarcasm) cashier was very happy (lie) and reminded me just
how important my business was to their store (bigger lie). So remember,
those pre-paid cards are a pain in the ass royally. So tell American
Express they can shove them up their asses.
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