I've heard of this happening but never experienced it myself....until yesterday.
After filling up my truck with gas I went inside to pay the attendant with my oil company credit card. I had just received a new card and had not signed the back yet. The clerk reminded me that it needed a signature, so I took my pen and signed it, and gave it to her to process.
She handed me the printed receipt, which I signed. She then held up the card and the receipt to see if the signatures matched!
No, she wasn't blond...or young.
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
ROFLMAO Ray. that made me chuckle hard!
Posted by Frank Magoo (Member # 3950) on :
Oh Ray, she was just being "for sure, for sure"!!! Posted by W. R. Pickett (Member # 3842) on :
...She probably thought you looked like the shifty type.
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
Bet she was a democr...
oops. Posted by John Deaton (Member # 925) on :
Nah Don. Thats Texas. Nothing but republicans there. Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
I DO NOT sign the back of the card!
If lost or stolen, it makes it easier for the next person to use it by practicing your signature. Let's face it, us old brush guys would make excellent forgers.
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
Do not sign the back of your card. Simply write "check ID" in it's place.
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
I hate to admit it because I'm firmly in Don's camp....but that was a pretty good "burn" John....heheheh.
Ray - After she handed your card back, you should have immediately said, "Hey, where's the change from the $100 bill I just gave you?"
Chances are you would have walked back to your truck with an extra $50 in your pocket. (Just kiddin' of course) Posted by Gary Hove (Member # 4970) on :
I sign the back of mine " see drivers licence" that way if I lose my cards and if some one is checking at the till. They have to mach pic ID as well.
Posted by Myra Grozinger (Member # 327) on :
That's really funny Raymond!
Here's what I saw in Texas. Quite a few of them, too. Guess some people don't want to be stereotyped....
Posted by William Holohan (Member # 2514) on :
50 plus years ago...Go with my dad to the lumber yard. He loads the truck up with 2 x 4's and a couple of bags of cement. Yard man writes him a ticket for 80+ dollars. Inside we go to pay up. Kid I went to school with is at the cash register. Big time High School football player. Dad gives the kid two fifty dollar bills. Kid puts them in the register and starts to count back the old mans change. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty and x cents. Dad looks at me...I look at Dad. Dad explains to kid that he gave him back the amount of the ticket not the amount of the change. Puzzled look on the kids face...I swear to this day that he actually scratched his head. Takes a pencil and subtracts the 80+ from the hundred on paper. Reaches into the register and hands my Dad $19 and change. Looks him in the eye and says, "Sorry about that." My Dad is beyond flabbergasted and takes the money, walks to the office which is off to the side and explains to the owner, whom he has done business with for years, what happened. Owner takes the the $80+ and says to my Dad, "Gonna have to keep an eye on that nephew of mine." Out the door we go, and my Dad gives me a line I have used too many times since..."Size 48 jacket, size 3 hat."
[ February 10, 2006, 02:13 PM: Message edited by: William Holohan ]
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
Myra, it was JD that suggested there weren't any in Texas. I knew from reading Raymond's story that there was at least one.
[ February 10, 2006, 02:23 PM: Message edited by: Don Coplen ]
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
Ray, She just got back from a VISA card security seminar.. They teach em how to be card police in them classes.
They claim they want the back of the cards signed because,, without a signaure there is nothing to forge.
Your card is signed,, and a crook uses it,,, then he commits forgery.. Hmmmm,,,
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
NO SIGNATURE....is the best way...when yuou hand the cashier youre card they look at the back...NO SIGNATURE, they ask for I.D. if its signed and NOT YOU USIN THE CARD...they dont ask for id.....
Posted by Doug Phillips (Member # 5708) on :
OMG Ray! - That is hilarious! Thanks for the laugh!
Posted by William DeBekker (Member # 3848) on :
From a Former Not so Law Abiding Citizen. I would Love you guys that wouldnt sign your Credit Cards Cause all I would have to do is Sign your name with my Handwriting and its golden. Matches the reciept no Checking. Alway sign your Name or What the others do. "Ask for ID" On sig. line
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