In today's world when you pay for something you are asked, Debit, Credit or Cash. Unless God help you, you decide to use one of those self check out lines. Then you aren't asked by a person this vital question, oh no, you most certainly are not. You have a machine, who has a screen asking you these questions! LOL Well here is a little story about one of those times, when you use one of those machines and you decide at the end of the experience that you should have stayed home instead of venturing out of the house.
Picture this......It's Mumbling Papa's birthday, and Pay Day is 2 away so needles to say you have no money to do anything for him. He knows you like to do at least a little something special, so he takes it upon himself to transfer a small amount of money into your bank account. Hearing about it, you get excited but soon realize it's not enough to do cake and get him a present. Especially with 4 Mumbling Kids, 3 of which will want to pick something out individually for Mumbling Papa. So you decide to scour the Internet to find the best Foggy cup cake design. Knowing Froggy's are his favorite and that Mumblings Kids will LOVE to make them for him. So you find the perfect recipe (pic and link at the bottom), the Mumbling kids get super excited about the idea, YES!! You start to get excited to, so you write out your shopping list, add a few more essential things you need to it. Change Mumbling Toddler and Mumbling Baby's diaper, get shoes and socks on everyone and out the door you go!
Once you reach the Grocery Store, you plod right along. After getting all the things you need, you allow the Mumbling Kids to pick out candy because they have been so good. Then you make your way to check out. So you decide as you are passing closed check out stands, to do the self check out because........
1 there isn't a line and Mumbling Baby is ready for his nap, and
2 Mumbling Toddler and Mumbling Boy along with Mumbling Girl will have fun doing it.
(upon reflecton you will think surely there was some dramatic music playing, that you just happened not to hear. Because no way could the following events occur with out it!)
So you scan all your items, some how fitting everything on that ridiculous small bagging area and get ready to pay. And the Machine asks you...Debit, Credit, Cash, EBT, Gift Card along with a few other options. Ohh Debit PLEASE, your mind says as you push the debit button. Oh, yes all on one card please, as you push the button to confirm. Finish in tablet, Okie Dokie Mr. Machine, I'll just do that....Swipe..enter Code, alrighty, punch, punch, punch, punch...yes yes, I authorize you to take that amount....then the most ominous thing that can happen while swipping, happens... The machine beeps.. you think beep? its not supposed to do that!!!! BEEP BEEP BEEP, please wait for assistance, need more information, the other much larger screen blinks at you..Huh? What do you mean, need more information? ahh, errrr....okay...Ill just text Mumbling Papa see what is going on in my account...So you text Mumbling Papa, and he says no there isn't enough in the act, I will add 2 dollars to it..well okay that is fine. I can push the embarrassment away and go on with my business..So you wait about 4 mins and try again...again same response..WTF?, you think..I'm supposed to have 5 more dollars then the total..okay try again, maybe it hasn't gone thru...nope still won't work...So you text Mumbling Papa back again starting to get mad. After all, he has said you have the money, you now have a Mumbling Baby who is screaming at you because he wants to nurse and go to sleep, a Mumbling Toddler who wants to toddle about, a Mumbling Boy trying to climb the everything and a Mumbling Girl who is oblivious to it all LOL So after dealing with the store clerk set to watch that area, who in the end got so used to you being declined he would just push the button at his register instead of comming over to you to do it, after furiously texting back and forth with Mumbling Hubby (who was talking to both the bank and the store manager on the phone), after sitting in the aisle and nursing Mumbling Baby so he would stop screaming, and having Mumbling Girl watch Mumbling Toddler and Mumbling Boy, after taking 15 dollars of stuff off your bill, and swiping your ATM as both debit and credit more times then one should EVER swipe a card in one sitting...the lovely cashier who at this point is probably tired of your decling card ass, comes over and says he will suspend the transaction until you get it figured out. and Helpfully points you toward the in store bank, so you can with drawl the cash. So you take Mumbling Kids over to the in store ATM, swipe tell it 40 dollars quick cash, just to have it tell you that you don't have enough money! At that point, you are beyond embarrassed, and fighting tears right there in the super market. Mumbling Kids have no idea what is going on, and certainly do not understand why Mumbling Mama can't buy the goodies so they can make Mumbling Papa his birthday day surprise. You decide enough is enough, and gather your Mumbling Babies and walk them right the store, while texting Mumbling Pap and telling him to get your money out of that bank. So you get Mumbling Kids all buckled, and drive home fighting tears. When you get home, you get the shock of your life, Mumbling Papa transferred the money to the wrong account, so there was no way you could pay for it. As you are digesting that you help Mumbling Kids find something else to make him. (ended up being jello cup cakes LOL) and you decided that all times in the future when you asked...Debit, Credit, Cash or........Your answer will be CASH!! Because you don't ever want to be asked, Debit, Credit, Cash or........and have your answer be run out the door again!!!!
For anyone who is interested...These are the Cup Cakes we had decided to make for Mumbling Papa. Maybe we will get a chance to make them this weekend, while this Mumbling Mama's In Laws are visiting from New York :)
*Clicking the Picture above will take you to the Directions on How to Make these adorable Lil Froggy's :)*
