Whistlestop prejudice!

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I can only conclude prejudice!  Today I went into the whistle stop at Victoria to buy my lottery syndicate tickets as I have been doing every Friday (@ least whilst I was at work) for the last 6-7 weeks! So this is how the conversation goes me "can I have 6 lucky dips for tonight please?" The man " do you have cash we dont take cards?" Me " but I paid with a card last week and the week before  we don't take cards it has to be cash he repeated! So I said to him again trying not to show my irritation but I paid with a card last week, then he said well we don't take credit cards! " at this point I told him that I don't have a credit card it's a debit card! 

Now I was with my friend,we wanted to do a lucky dip quick syndicate and she had given me the £2 a transaction we both concluded he witnessed, so after all the shenanigans of the different tickets I paid the £20 and left! But at this point I was mad, really irritated, because no 1 this particular man has served me  many times, but more importantly no 2 was the fact that he went straight for the negative, and, I feel made certain assumptions about me! After all at the very top of the conversation he had no way of knowing how I intended to pay, courtesy dictated that he should have let me present my means of payment and then let's have the discussion! And it's not just the action but also his tone of voice, it was rather condescending!

All that after a crappy day at at the office! Hmm