Left the house in a hurry this morning, driving to Drogheda, and the fuel warning light comes on. Of course, that's when i realise I have left my wallet and all cards/cash at homeI pulled into a garage, and went in to ask if there was any way I could put some fuel in and call home to read the CC number out to them to pay - nope. I had my driving licence, work ID and passport etc. but apparently there is no facility.
Have had to bribe my younger brother to catch the bus up to Dublin Airport in the hope i can make it down there (45km left in tank, fingers crossed) and he will bring my wallet. 2 hour wait though for him to get here - then will drive him back via Liffey Valley or somewhere for dinner.
I feel a very big fool for having done this (plus the fact I was supposed to be meeting somebody for dinner in Dublin tonight, that's not happening now!) but I would have thought there was some facility to pay with card over the phone with sufficient ID. If I had driven in to the garage, filled up and then claimed to have no money, what would the story have been?
Why didn't you give them your watch as security ?? I did this once in London of all places and returned the following day. Worked a treat but the watch was worth a heel of a lot more than the fill of petrol.
Fingers never gave nothing to nobody for nothing.Michael Fingleton, is that you?!!!!
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/...nds-return-of-11k-fingleton-watch-515143.html
Why didn't you give them your watch as security ?? I did this once in London of all places and returned the following day. Worked a treat but the watch was worth a heel of a lot more than the fill of petrol.
You are absolutely right: should you have driven in, filled up your car and THEN told them you had no money with you, it would have been a completely differenet story.
This happened to me a while ago. It was a petrol station on the N11 ( there are 2 nearly opposite to each other/close to Cherrywood exit). I was really low and needed to get some petrol. As i got out of the car, I realised that I had left my wallet at work. I went in and told the gentleman at the till aho told me that because I had told him that, they could not let me get some petrol. I offered to leave an ID behind the counter but they refused. He advised me to do a U trun on the N11 and go to the petrol station across, fill up and then tell them I had no mo money. That is exactly what I did and I had no pb to fill up. I was asked to fill a form.
I went back to work, collected my wallet and went back up to pay!
As far as paying by CC over the phone: not only I can see why they would not be too keen but also for retailers to be able to do that, they need a special annual subscriptions on their terminals, and they don t all offer that facility ( I have found that out 2 weeks ago when wante dto pay an optician over the phone)
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