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- From: pas@ansley.cc.gatech.edu (Paulo Santos)
- Subject: Re: The unhappy byproduct of gas stations and ATM cards
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.232340.14546@cc.gatech.edu>
- Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- References: <Bx9vxr.7zu@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:23:40 GMT
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- In article <Bx9vxr.7zu@chinet.chi.il.us>, koziarz@chinet.chi.il.us (Louis Koziarz) writes:
- > Well I decide to stop at the local Amoco tonight and fill up the car.
- > There's not much money in my wallet, so I decide to use the nifty new ATM
- > debit feature. Same as cash, how can I go wrong?
- >
- > I fill up, walk inside, hand the girl my ATM card, she replies 'Our Cash
- > Station connection is down'. NOW what am I gonna do? I tell her 'I wish you
- > had a sign outside that said that'. She shrugs. I take out my credit card,
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Why? You could shrug too. After all, there was no sign outside, you intended
- to pay by ATM card, and you didn't have cash. You don't have to have a credit
- card either. Wanna bet they find a solution real fast?
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