Please Don’t Taste My Credit Card
Posted by Cap on February 3, 2008 |Random Sunday afternoon rant.
So when you hand your credit card to the cashier, sometimes they fiddle with it while waiting for the transaction to clear. Tapping it against the counter, flipping it, memorizing your card number, etc.
You know, the usual stuff. No biggie.
But lately my credit cards have been getting some weird fiddling — in the form of pressing the card against their lips — like how people bite or press a pen against their lips while in deep thought.
Dear cashiers: Please just scan my credit card and not make out with it. Thank you.
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February 3rd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Eww!!! Just remind them how many germs are on a card that gets passed around weekly…and never gets washed! That’s really disgusting.
February 4th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Yup. Ew indeed (mostly for the cashier, I would think).
February 4th, 2008 at 8:40 am
WHERE are you shopping? Hehehe…
I avoid this problem… by paying with cash.
Here’s another annoying thing I’ve noticed -
cashiers who avoid eye contact and never
say ‘thank you’… strange…
NCN
February 4th, 2008 at 9:57 am
@NCN
My number one shopping peev, you hit it. Managers need to teach their cashiers to THANK US for buying stuff at their store and keeping them in a job! So sick of hearing “here ya go”.
Next time a cashier licks a card, I think I’ll offhandedly mention how that’s the card I use to divide up my cocaine. I don’t even know what the hell you call that, since I don’t do it, but it’ll make for a priceless expression!
February 4th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
EW! I so prefer to slide my own card!
I hope you’re wiping your cards down with some sort of sanitizing spray after these run-ins with weird cashiers!
February 5th, 2008 at 5:15 am
My mother used to buy me a vanish that I applied to my nails to stop my biting them when I was a kid. If you bit them the vanish tasted like hell! Apply a little of that to the card and Im sure it would be the last time it would go near the cashiers mouth.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Have you ever farted while the card was in your wallet?
You could remind the cashier of that…
February 10th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Maybe the cashier was flirting with you??
I don’t know. It’s really just ew.
February 10th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I’m certain that I caught an eye infection from a cashier once. She had a purple mark over her eye and swollen lid. Within a couple of days I had the same mark and swelling. within 5 days my eye looked like Rocky Balboa’s at the end of “Rocky” and I was prescribed drops and strong antibiotics. Seems it could have been passed to me when she handled my card. Maybe, Maybe not… but it’s made me more cautious. I stopped short of wiping my cards with anti-bacterial wipes but I certainly wash my hands more often after shopping.
February 11th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Do I detect a hint of jealousy?
I mean if you just share the card with clerks will nilly, maybe the card is entitled to a little affection.
I’d rather be kissed than flipped or tapped. Maybe you should think about it from the card’s point of view.
February 11th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
With that bad an oral fixation, they’ll get some disease eventually,and you’ll have the last laugh.
February 12th, 2008 at 4:17 am
haha. more comments than I realized. I don’t generally wipe down my credit card after use, but I did that time.
I doubt these specific cashiers put any thought to the action, just a bit ew that’s all.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:23 am
tell them that you had your card put under your pants :)