i went to the post office today to send a package back to it's original owners and pick up a book of stamps for rin. as i stood in line, i secretly hoped i would get the older lady that usually helps me, since she is a kindly woman. the man she was helping walked away from the counter and i was about to approach when another postal worker said, "i can help you."
i walk on up and tell him what i need. i pull out my card and hand it over to him.
"credit or debit?"
"credit."
he looks at the card and then says to me, "you have to sign this."
"it says, see identification."
"you still have to sign it."
i hold my tongue (a little). "i've never had to sign it and i've used it here before."
he looks at me and says, "you have to sign it or you can't use it here."
he hands it back along with a big fat black marks-a-lot. so i stand there, pen in hand and scribble my signature across the back of the plastic. i hand it back to him and he swipes it. then he hands me the receipt to sign and so i sign. he then takes both card and receipt and inspects each signature to make sure they match.
does anyone else see the irony in this. . . ?
i walk on up and tell him what i need. i pull out my card and hand it over to him.
"credit or debit?"
"credit."
he looks at the card and then says to me, "you have to sign this."
"it says, see identification."
"you still have to sign it."
i hold my tongue (a little). "i've never had to sign it and i've used it here before."
he looks at me and says, "you have to sign it or you can't use it here."
he hands it back along with a big fat black marks-a-lot. so i stand there, pen in hand and scribble my signature across the back of the plastic. i hand it back to him and he swipes it. then he hands me the receipt to sign and so i sign. he then takes both card and receipt and inspects each signature to make sure they match.
does anyone else see the irony in this. . . ?
posted by tenacious phenmonkey at 12:33 PM
3 Comments:
He wasn't the brightest crayon in the box, was he?
oh postal workers. The penultimate control freaks. Did he mark his checklist once he had verified those signatures? they make me so crazy! at the office by our house, they don't check your ID enough so that you don't always bring it because....then there is that one time, you know the one where you are in a big hurry and you have exactly the right amount of time to get the errand done, IF, all goes as usual. But it doesn't, they want ID, you don't have it, they won't fork over the package and so it goes. ARRRRRRGH.
Um, not ironic.
/like raayyyaiiiin
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