December 2, 2004
SOB of the week
THE BROOKLYN CARDLICKER: We all know that record store employees are a little on the strange side -- the movie industry has filled many a seat with films based on the notion that these people are either idiot savants or repressed geniuses. But my experience over the long weekend has made me question whether I should switch entirely to the sterile world of mail order.
So there I was, in the "cool" part of the "cool" borough (the part of town "bracketed" by "quotes"), with my expensive multi-disc purchase, when my credit card wouldn't go through. Swipe again, nothing. Swipe slow, doesn't read. I gave the clerk another card and it doesn't work either. He tries the trick with the plastic bag, and that doesn't work. So now, of nowhere, he says "excuse me" and LICKS the card's magnetic strip.
Holy mother of everything that's even remotely holy!
You don't LICK someone else's credit card without fully explaining what it is you plan to do. If there was some sort of rule on this (i.e. if it worked), the clerk would offer the customer the chance to lick his or her own card.
I was so taken aback that I didn't even say anything.
So this goes out to you, sitting in your Brooklyn record store, listening to ESG B-sides while your English buddy hits on female customers as they browse the racks: You are SOB of the week all the way down here in Washington. Try to keep your tongue to yourself next week.
Posted by rj3 at December 2, 2004 3:20 PM
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that's so ridiculous and gross
y didnt you say anything
Posted by: nia at December 2, 2004 3:45 PM
Don't keep us in suspense. Did licking make it scan?
Posted by: Aaron at December 2, 2004 4:35 PM
That has got to be the grosses thing I've heard all day.
Posted by: Terrance at December 2, 2004 11:29 PM