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MIButterfly

(380 posts) Thu Apr 10, 2025, 07:59 PM Apr 10

I hate being treated like a helpless, doddering old fool. [View all]

Yesterday I went to Costco to get gas. The pump wouldn't accept my membership card; the screen kept saying "Error - re-insert card" so I went to get the attendant (who looked to be all of 14). He then proceeded to turn the card over, point to the magnetic strip and explain to me very slowly and condescendingly that the card goes in with the strip facing the green light. You mean like I just did three effing times and every other time I've been there? I'm not senile nor am I stupid. I still have (most of) my faculties. I wished I had some kind of cane so I could shake it at him and call him a whippersnapper.

And of course, the card worked perfectly for him.

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I hate being treated like a helpless, doddering old fool. [View all] MIButterfly Apr 10 OP

Yeah, understand the feeling, but if the card worked perfectly for him then observe and learn Bernardo de La Paz Apr 10 #1

Wow. I thought it was a semi-amusing story. MIButterfly Apr 10 #3

Well you fooled me. I must be 14 years old & wet behind the ears. It came off as a rant, not as you being amused. Bernardo de La Paz Apr 10 #4

I thought the image of someone shaking a cane and calling someone a whippersnapper was amusing. MIButterfly Apr 10 #6

C'mon, you are better than that to play the victim Bernardo de La Paz Apr 10 #7

And I wasn't impressed by your chastising. Can we call it even? MIButterfly Apr 10 #8

I understand what you are saying,,,,, KarenS Apr 10 #2

I like to play them when they think I''m stupid. rickyhall Apr 10 #5

Another example of successful internet communication. Bmoboy Apr 11 #9

I always say "it must be my magnetic personality" EmmaLee E Apr 11 #10

LOL! Good answer! MIButterfly Apr 11 #11

LOL!!!!!! Unity In Voice Apr 14 #12

Welcome to our DU family. niyad Apr 24 #13