Save the Cashier, Save your Sanity.

(I really need to watch this show.)
Anyhow my post yesterday was sparked by a trip to Fry's (a local geek superstore). The lady at the cashier next to me was having a melt down because her card was declined. She demanded that the poor guy try it again, and when it was declined again, she went on and on how it's impossible that it was declined, she had just made a purchase. So she rummages in her wallet and throws another card at him, THROWS! He picked it up off of the counter, without giving her any attitude back and tells her that it was also declined. She immediately reaches a whole new level of bitchdom, telling him that his system is broken and that she made "a payment of over a hundred bucks, so it should work!" He tried again, and again declined, this time he turns a light on above his station, likely to call for a manager. At this time I mumble to Adam that some people are so rude, which I think she heard because I was the recipient of a venomous glare. I so wanted to step in and save the poor guy, but I think she would have freaked more. Anyhow she went on telling him that "there is no way that this card should be declined, I just put 150 bucks on it and this is only fifty bucks!" By this time our stuff was all bagged and we were bustin' out of there, trying to avoid the bad karma she was exuding.
It made me so angry, it wasn't that poor cashier's fault. sigh...
Lisa, over at Random Outlaw tells a story similar, yet different. Go and check her out, and say hi, she's cool ya know!