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This was common in Chicago when I lived there from 2011-2013. "I'd like to pay with credit card" "Machine is broken." "It's all I have." "Fine."
by thathndude 7y ago
This was common in Chicago when I lived there from 2011-2013.
"I'd like to pay with credit card"
"Machine is broken."
"It's all I have."
"Fine."
- mytailorisrich 7y agoHere in the UK, if you say it's all you have they just reply "I can stop by an ATM"...
- oefrha 7y agoThat’s cheating their company (and/or setting up for tax evasion), which in my experience is far more common than cheating the customer with a detour, at least when the customer is local (you can show your localness through verbal cues implying or simply indicating you know the route).
- spsrich2 7y agoOnly the other night a Chicago cabbie tried to get my wife to pay with a portable credit card reader not the one installed in the machine. She made a big fuss and he 'discovered' that the built in machine was working after all.