Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Cookies and Porn

I don't look at porn!! read on for details.

So today at work I was given the task to buy 20 cookies from McDonald's. Sounds simple enough, right? Wrong. Things started out smoothly. I did have to make a U-turn to get there but I made it to McDonald's safe and sound. Waited in line. Placed my order. 10 oatmeal cookies and 10 choc chip cookies. to go please. swiped my debit card...4 times. NOT APPROVED . Do you take checks? nope. Well, this is where things get interesting. I remembered the time in my life (last night) when I was charged $70 on my credit card for something sketchy. The charge to my card read only "introflux.com" and a 1-888 phone number. Did I accidentally buy some crap online??? What the? Of course I did the obvious thing which was to panic. And then I went to the website to hopefully solve this mystery. Instead I found a long list of uber-sketchy websites, a phone number (called, no answer), and a link to the "online help page." Online help sounded pretty good to me so....CLICK! and what did I find? a membership to a PORN site. again, I do not subscribe to porn. I just don't do it. its a waste of money. I immediately called my bank and canceled my credit card. Unfortunately they must have deactivated my debit card as well. So, back to the cookie story. I didn't have cash and I don't even know if I could use an ATM with my cards so I went to my bank which was clear on the other side of town. at least I was on the clock right? I get to the bank and although it was packed the girl in front of me felt the need to share her life story with the teller. not cool. I eventually got my turn and retrieved 50 bucks from my checking account. Good to go. I went back to McDonald's and it must have been a shift change because no one who had helped me before was there. So I ask the cashier for 10 choc chip and 10 oatmeal cookies. He tells me that I can only get 3 or 13 of each. Right. I didn't argue for times sake, just give me the cookies! I paid and waited. and waited. the cashier who helped me started sweeping the floor. two employees got into a heated argument about a cash register. still, no cookies. they must have made them from scratch for as long as I waited. Finally I got the cookies and rushed back to work. i would soon discover that, although i paid for 13 of each, they actually only gave me 10 of each. So what was the 3 or 13 deal? And to top it all off, on my second trip back to McDonalds i noticed that my bank was right across the street. And now everyone things i like porn.

3 comments:

Jessica and Reece said...

This post made me laugh...and cry. Now you know how I felt when I got "THE QUICKIE" in the mail...

Katie said...

Ha! Hi Emily, this is Katie, Sara's sister in law...and I love your post! Except I'm sorry it happened to you, but if it helps at all, it was funny to read about! :)

Anonymous said...

Haha, it was probably your boyfriend that used your card. Happens all the time.