osanfg73qgwhfiuequi some girl from my high school just posted this n like… she’s not the kind of person who would share it out of satire i’m fucking screaming
“Halloween, commonly known in the homosexual community as ‘Gay Christmas”
I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money.
“A scam” people are fucking wild.
This happened to me, too. A woman had used WIC for the majority of her stuff (which I say from personal experience is such a long and embarrassing process) and to buy the remainder of her groceries, which included diapers and wipes, she used a card, and it got declined. I bought the other $30 of her groceries because hey, I’ve been there, and now I’m not. She was extremely emotional and began to cry and even hugged me. My mom called me on the drive home and could tell I had been crying myself, asked what was wrong, and when I told her what happened, she berated me for being “duped.” I couldn’t believe she could be so disappointed in one of her children for doing something- nice? Is that the hill you want to die on? Getting mad about people needing groceries?
I once paid for a woman’s bill at the vet…it wasn’t a big one, but she was trying to pay for some medication for her dog, and her card was declined. And her lip started trembling, and she says “I don’t get paid until Tuesday, would he be ok until then?”
So I just told them to add the $20 something onto my bill, and I thought she was going to break down crying right there.
And I don’t care if it was a scam or not. Just do nice things for people sometimes.
I don’t trust people who don’t do things like this. If you’ve got the money and someone else doesn’t, fucking give it up. If it’s a scam then karma will get them, but if it’s not then you just helped someone who needed it, which is supposedly what Jesus would do or whatever.
seriously, if someone is ‘scamming’ you for 20 bucks worth of groceries or cab fare or something, it’s not a scam, even if they think it is. real scammers go for high volume low effort, and they only want cash.
You know what I think it is, that’s making people go “oh it’s a scam, don’t fall for it”?
It’s that urban legend about someone – a little old lady, usually – telling another person (usually an adult man) in the grocery store, “oh, you look so much like my son” and spinning a sob story about how she’s so alone and sad and it’d mean so much if he’d call her mom while they’re at the store together. And then they go through the checkout, he says “bye mom” and she leaves with her groceries and the cashier checks his stuff through and rings up his total…which is about twice what he expected it to be (usually somewhere around a hundred dollars more), and he asks what’s going on. “Oh,” the cashier says, “your mom said you’d pay for her groceries too.”
And that gets passed around as an explanation for why you shouldn’t trust anyone who’s going “I just need a little bit of kindness, really”.
Except I’ve never heard a source for this that actually checked out. It’s a complete fiction. Even on the face of it, it wouldn’t work, the cashier is not going to let someone walk out of the store before the transaction is completed, just on the promise that the next person in line will pay. I’m not even sure the system will let that happen! (And that’s leaving aside the fact that they’re supposed to be right next to each other in the line, you think he’d notice her talking to the cashier and going “oh, my son will pick up the tab”.)
hell, even if someone managed to pull that on me – and you’re right, it’s logistically impossible – i’d just chuckle and be like “oh well played madam.”
because like. seriously? she got to eat. is what she got out of that. it’s not like you can bank avocados and spaghetti in the cayman islands. are people who relate this story imagining her gloating on top of a hoard of lettuces and cans of ravioli like some kind of grocery dragon?
That guest of Sen. Dean Heller is none other than known Nazi Peter Cvjetanovic. It would be a shame if the electorate in Nevada found out about this from the asshole who said he wouldn’t take away healthcare and then voted to repeal it anyway.
Friendly reminder that this jackass also voted for Kavanaugh and is running in a tight race for senate against Jacky Rosen:
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