'He's complaining to me he's overdrawn...not my problem dude': Repair shop refuses customer's credit card payment, then realizes his mistake

This person told a tale of their car repair debacle from 20 years ago, and you can tell it's an old story because they discovered the repair shop using a phone book. A real phone book! What a delightful throwback!

For those of you who don't know, a phone book was a very big and heavy book with hundreds of pages. The white pages listed the numbers of people, and the yellow pages listed the numbers for businesses. It wasn't just numbers, either, it usually listed addresses too. Having your phone and address floating around in the world is considered rather unsafe in the internet age, but back in the day, that was just how you had to contact people.

It was common to look up your friends' parents number to call their house, and if you didn't know their parents names, you might accidentally call their uncle or someone else listed under that last name. Or, if you needed a car repair service, you'd flip to that section in the yellow pages and choose a business based off vibes alone — there was no such thing as leaving star-rating reviews online yet. The iPhone thing we have going on now is so much of an improvement.

Another way you can tell this dude's story took place decades ago is that they had issues using a credit card. Now, credit cards are so ubiquitous that some places don't even accept cash payments. Whereas back in the olden times, credit cards were often used just for big purchases (not things like $4 coffees or filling up your car with gas). Lots of places wouldn't take credit cards, or were confused as to how to use them. This person had quite the headache trying to get a repair shop to take their payment, and you can check out the entire story below. Then, check out a tale of two neighbors who cannot agree on where one of them should park a truck.

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Posted by Remy Millisky