No gloss, no filter, just stories, spoken without fear. A person who is not generous cannot be an artist. The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Bhachio on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Come for the honesty, stay for the fire. I had something kind of embarrassing happen to her yesterday. Kind of. What happened? Oh my God, my credit card got declined. At a place that I go to all the time too. So, you know I love my premier pet supply. Support local, we love all of the locations of premier pet supply. And you do have 8,000 dogs at home. This is true, so. For those that don't know, Shannon's not a dog owner, she's dog owner. I have three. Got a kennel. Three dogs. Lucy and Smith. We also brought the puppy, who's really not a puppy anymore. He's about to be two, but bow. So we brought him into the store and so I'm like, okay, I'm getting everything I need. I got one of those big, huge bags of dog food. I got probably 20 bags of treats and toys and bones and all the things because like, they don't do this all year. So, the lady is ringing me up. It's a girl that I see all the time because I go all the time. The store is packed with people because the deals are great. And she gives me my total, which is kind of a lot because I have a lot of stuff. And I tap my phone for my credit card that is the account that Wes and I share for, it was a debit card actually, but it's the account that Wes and I share for all of our household expenses. And she looks at me and she goes, oh, it only took off $23. And I still owe, you know, whatever $160. And I'm like, wait, I'm thinking what just happened? So I'm like, oh, there must have been a mistake because I know there's money in this account. Right? I tap my phone again and she looks at me and she's like, oh, you guys, I wanted to melt into the floor. Yes. Because again, I'm a frequent customer. There's people in behind me. Lucy looks at me and she's like, what's wrong, mom? Are we poor? Do we not have money? And I'm like, well, I'm thinking, oh my God, I know I have money in this account, but just to like negate the uncomfortableness of the situation, I tap my credit card so that I can just get my stuff and go. But I walked out of there and it's, I mean, it happens to everybody, right? It's happened to everybody before, but it's still, especially somewhere where you go all the time. It's so embarrassing. Did you start freaking out thinking that maybe somebody got a hold of your account or anything? Oh, there was $0.0 in this account. And I called the West and I'm like, what the heck were you buying? And apparently what had happened was his all of it's a long story, but all of his Amazon purchases got sent to, he was using that tapping that card and some of the other, you know, or using that card and so the other card. So it was. Yeah. That by the way, the, that person that pre-marriage pet supplies is nice because I have been to places before and I won't say because they're advertiser where the women's like, it's declined. Do you have another one? Like they'll do it like that. No, and she said it so nicely too. It happened to a lady that I ended up paying for her groceries and I'm like, this poor woman, you can't do that. You got another card, you know, and have you ever been in a line where somebody has like multiple cards, a bunch of them and they're trying them and they're not working? And you feel, you feel awful. And listen, I mean, we've all had financial, you know, struggles at time or another or now. And so I'm like, no, no, no, let me, let me take care of it. And then I did it and whatever and the woman grows bags of groceries up and, you know, and heads off and the woman goes, she does that all the time. I'm like, oh my God, did I get scammed? That's why the lady was so kind of like. But when it's you, I started, I could feel myself sweating. And then I'm like making, I know there's money in that account. You're making the excuse out loud, right? That happened to me a couple times. Really? I'm talking about it. It happened to me. And first off, they need, speaking of grocery stores, they need to change the way it sounds when they accept your card, because it sounds like it's got the client. It go like, yeah, like it's like a negative tone where I'm like, hold on a second. It does say approve. Okay, we good. And one time I was at the movies. They need to make it a. Yeah, you did a type of sound. It's totally wrong. I was at the movies one time. Somebody had recognized me. I go to pay. I'm like, so you recognize me in line or whatever. I'm like, yeah, how you doing? I asked for a picture. I leave. I had to come back to get something else. And it was finally his turn to check out. He's with his girl. I'm like, man, let me pay for that for y'all. No, okay. When I said I'm with the tap and she's like, no, I'm like, stop playing. Tap the gears. But finally he was like, it's okay. I'm like, oh my God. Walked away with like, Grittin' on a T like this is so. The sound that goes with that is. I'm like, you know how it is sometimes. Sometimes these cars. I'm big playing. Something's wrong with the tap. It's not to be. No, my favorite is you ever. Well, this is weird. Do you ever go to a strip club? But I've been, I've seen at strip clubs. They have ATMs. You ever see a guy fighting an ATM at a strip club? I mean, it's literally. I've seen that before at a strip club. Guys trying to take money out or at casinos. This happens too. The casino is a guy and you feel like you want to go over to the guy and go. Listen, it's 1-800-GAMBLER. 1-800-GAMBLER. Call that number right now. Got to figure that thing out. So I did. So did everything. Everything was fine. The dogs have been fed. There's money in that account. You know, you actually, we need in the. The angels for just $5. You could feed Shannon's 28,000 dogs that aren't going to be fed today. Kenny, what's going on? It's mojo in the morning. How are you? Have you had a card declined before like that? No, I didn't have mojo. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Hey, Kenny. So I was at a, I could say that then you were. The merchant. Sure. I was in low. All right. Yeah. Big old thing for one of those carts full of mugs. I'm in line. What's the behind me? And I had my $300 bills. So I'll get my $100 bill. He ran into the machine and passed once, but the second time it didn't pass. Everybody stayed up behind me. So here you are. I got another $100 bill. Same thing. Let's try this one. So now, not even a month. So now, now they want to, they want to get the manager and verify it. I'm like, look, I got, you know, the line is getting long. Oh no. Exactly. So I pulled out a credit card, but that was. Where did you get counterfeit money? Where did that come from? But the money wasn't counted. We're all they. He did a party. Yeah. I had this day party about a week ago. How did they think it was counterfeit then? They ran into the machine. Oh, and the machine was wrong. They just don't market. Yeah. That's whenever they do that pen thing with the thing. I'm always like praying. I don't like it comes back. They don't hold it up to the light anymore. They used to. No, no. You go to a dollars, the dollar stores now they say people are passing more counterfeit stuff there all the time. What's up, Jennifer. Hi. Hey, good morning guys. Good morning. So I was at Aldi like two weeks ago and I go to self checkout and I'm do the self checkout, scan everything, LaDiDaw. I go to tap my card to pay and it's a client. And I'm like, what? I thought I had more money than this. Like I only use it for groceries. So I tap it again and it's the client. I was like, no, there's something wrong with this machine. Not me. Yeah. Right. And I tap it. I tap it a third time and it was a client and I'm like, oh man. So I go and I run to the app real quick and I look and I only had like $40. So I had to go walk over to the cashier at the one lane that was open and I was like, can you cancel my order and can you bring it up here? Cause the cashier was taking cash and credit. So I had cash. So I was like, can I just do half cash, half credit here? But can you just like take that off from the youth scan over there? I felt horrible. It was so bad. I know. And you know what? It's the worst feeling. You have this feeling like honestly, like everybody's giving you dirty eyes. What's up, Holly. Hi. Hey, good morning guys. Morning. So I've tried to prepay at the pump yesterday and apparently you have to have $100 in your account to prepay at that. That is the dumbest thing ever. They hold on and then the worst is I drive a Honda Civic. I needed like $20 and yes. Holly, the worst is they hold on to that $100 for a little bit. And if you've got a debit and you need other stuff, they, this, that, that needs to. That is a while. Michigan needs to stop that and there needs to be a logins that. Can you explain what you're saying? So they hold $100 on your debit card, off your debit card, no matter what your pumping as far as gases concern. You'll see that charge go through for $100. And then it will be reimbursed to you and then they'll just charge you for what you want. But a lot of times it doesn't go back if you have certain banks fast enough. So some people get negative in their accounts and they need to stop. That needs to honestly be a law that. Why do they do that? That they need to change. Because they supposedly say that they're people that, that scam them. But the problem is when you're using your debit card, it should just take whatever it is at the end. They think that you're going to gas and go out of there. And they think they don't know how much money you're going to put gas wise inside the tank until you fill it up. What's up, Jodi? Hi. Morning guys. Good morning. I went into gas station and I kept using the card. It kept declining to kind of by the fourth time I'm like, all right, something's up. So I walked away, step aside. And I had forgotten that I was holding on to my daughter's card, which looked exactly like mine. Oh, yeah. That's yeah. So I'm like, oh, thank God. She would have told me if they would have like blocked the card from being able to be used. Oh gosh. You know, someone's trying to. Right, right. I'm sorry. By the way, you are banging away on that plant. Aren't you right now? I am. I love it. I catch myself up. I love it. I'm like, whatever you're making, making America great again right there. You know, it's another comfortable situation when you don't know how much money you have in your account, right? But you think you got enough to buy what you want to buy. Yeah. And are you going to a store with terrible Wafa so you can't even pull up the app to check your ballots? Right. You get to the line praying like, well, Jesus telling me I don't need that. Whatever. Bye. Caitlin, this happened to you yesterday. What happened to Shannon? God got declined. What were you buying? Yeah, I was with my son getting him football cleats at Dix and he wanted crocs too. And we got, we're at the checkout line and we're using my husband's credit card and it was declined. So luckily I had my bank card and I was able to pay for it. But my son instantly was like, is dad broke? Yeah, I know. That was Lucy. Oh, we were. What's happening? Dustin, what happened? All right. So I was literally going to go shopping. I just came back from Vegas. And when I came back, I like got like two, $300 worth of groceries. I'm in line ready to make a purchase. And people behind me and I wasn't at self-checkout. So I had to make an approach to make it a client. I was like, wait a minute. I know. I know I didn't spend all like, come on. I broke like that. So I was like, okay. So I'm trying to swipe again. They said no spirit of client. I had to call my bank because they thought I was still in Vegas. So they thought I was like, oh yeah. Yeah. Oh, you, you, you, I was so embarrassed. I just left the stove. I was like, you never left this. I left the stove. She didn't even need the stove. Yeah, I was, I was. I ain't going to not stall no more. By the way, you know what? I think I might have been the last time I've been there too. I was like, never. I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I think I might have been the last time I've been there too. I was like, never went back. Can I tell you my thing that I do sometimes, and this is a different thing. I've taken money out of the ATM and I've, you know, needed cash, you know, to kind of like hide from Chelsea. And I shouldn't have said that. And I have money in my pocket. Like, so I got a, you know, a bunch of cash and I'll pay with cash. And I have to explain to them that no, I am not a drug dealer or work. I know it's so. At some dispensary. People look at your funky now. You have cash nowadays. People automatically just assume, oh, that guy runs a prostitution ring. You know what I mean? And I don't know if I necessarily want them to think that. So, all right, thanks for the calls. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Come for the honesty. Stay for the fire.
