Comments on: Please Don’t Taste My Credit Card

By: dacks

dacks — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:23:27 +0000

tell them that you had your card put under your pants :)

By: Cap

Cap — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:17:39 +0000

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.

By: Elle Rayne

Elle Rayne — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:52:23 +0000

With that bad an oral fixation, they’ll get some disease eventually,and you’ll have the last laugh.

By: Wylie

Wylie — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:31:17 +0000

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.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:17:01 +0000

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.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:31:45 +0000

Maybe the cashier was flirting with you??

I don’t know. It’s really just ew.

By: John

John — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:40:32 +0000

Have you ever farted while the card was in your wallet?

You could remind the cashier of that…

By: used vans girl

used vans girl — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:15:29 +0000

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.

By: SavingDiva

SavingDiva — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:03:41 +0000

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!

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:57:08 +0000

@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!

By: NCN

NCN — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:40:13 +0000

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

By: Cap

Cap — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:55:02 +0000

Yup. Ew indeed (mostly for the cashier, I would think).

By: C_Bella

C_Bella — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:08:26 +0000

Eww!!! Just remind them how many germs are on a card that gets passed around weekly…and never gets washed! That’s really disgusting.