I would think most Amex cardholders would also have a MasterCard or Visa card in their wallet.
I think you’re missing something. She and billfish are stupid.
Oh right.
Just goes to show you.
You can never tell a story on the SDMB without some ass coming out of the woodwork to pick on your choice of words.
Miserable tiny little people who live for picking at others to make themselves feel superior.
paid in cash, must have been tatooed on him - Muslim… we do that, so we can’t be confused with the other people who look and dress funny.
No, but they do take 10% off Dick’s.
Screw you!
I do that sort of shit to make a living thank you very much!
:dubious: As compared to the Pit OPs who voluntarily start entire threads for the sole purpose of “telling a story” with no other point than picking at others to make themselves feel superior?
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Pit threads and think they serve a useful purpose, but…pot, kettle, you know?
Pot…kettle…thug… I gets it!
Are you implying what I said was racist:confused:
No no, good heavens, no. I am stating that what you said was racist.
(sits back, waits for indignant denial that there’s anything racist about the assumption that a black person using a credit card must have stolen it from somebody else)
Your’s was by far the most racist post of the thread, actually.
Where in the OP does it say that the Amex card was stolen? Nowhere, right? So you deciding that this black lady obviously must have stolen her credit card, to the point where she “should have stolen a visa card” instead… Yeah, pretty fucking racist.
He assumes she stole it because she was… loud. Yes, that’s it. Loud.
This is going great.
I don’t see it that way - there was much more in the story than the color of the person’s skin. It is the description of the behavior that is unusual to me not that a black person has a credit card.
I was in retail for many years, many of those in a predominantly black city. I had many customers of all races, very few people ever paid with cash. I did not take Amex; for the reasons people have already mentioned. The behavior displayed is highly unusual and is consistent with someone who is a criminal. the closest exact situation I have ever been in that was similar to this involved a white male.
I find it odd that your focus is on race given all the other elements of the story; but I can concede that using the term “big beautiful black woman” does give the whole thread a certain flavor that distracts from the main point - unusual belligerent behavior.
No , because she was belligerent and hostile. It has just been my experience that if people are belligerent and hostile that there is something nefarious going on.
As others have said in the thread, someone who has an Amex card should not be surprised when it is not accepted everywhere.
The main point of the story was that a black customer jumped to the conclusion that the reason the store wouldn’t take her credit card was because she was black.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Pitting said customer for that illogical inference and for being loud and offensive in complaining about it. As per the OP’s story, the customer behaved like an abusive bigoted asshole, and that’s a Pittin’.
There is something wrong, however, with gratuitously pointing out that the customer was overweight, or gratuitously assuming that she was probably a criminal. If all you meant by your post was “You know, people who get loud and abusive about credit cards being refused are often thieves who have stolen the card from somebody else and think that acting aggressive will throw the clerks off-balance so they won’t check the transaction carefully”, then that’s what you should have said at the start.
Don’t troll with racist stereotypes and then dodge when you’re called on them by explaining that you were actually referring to an unrelated issue that you very carefully neglected to mention in your initial baited-hook post.
One aspect to the story that suggests the card was stolen is that she seemed to have only the Am Ex card. I’d wager that somewhere around 100% of Am Ex cardholders also have at least one other credit card as well, if not several.
Why would somebody trying to use a stolen credit card draw a lot of attention to themselves?