21/05/2026
After a traumatic Tesco fuel expedition yesterday I realised again the power of cash and if we carry on this digital way and stop using cash then we are @@@@@@! This week, fraudulent activity on my card, Barclays called me and it was sorted very quickly and easy they were sending me out a replacement card and assured me my Apple Pay was still working, went to Tesco to fill the car up with fuel, pulled up at the pumps and thought bu**er I haven’t got a card but I’ll go in and get a pack of mints to make sure it goes through on Apple Pay, mints went through fine filled the car up with £70 of petrol and my Apple Pay declined, the absolute shame as I was scrambling around trying to show the cashiers (so fabulous and kind) that I had sufficient funds in my account to pay! They asked have I any other means of payment (other customers in the shop too) I said no, I had a credit card on my Apple Pay which I forgot about anyway, not their usual protocol they asked where I lived and would I leave my phone with them and go home where I’d said I had cash to pay for the fuel, homeward bound with no phone to get cash and back down to pay, the drama, the TRAUMA I tell you finished me off and when I walked in she said are you the Psychic! I wanted to die - anyway moral of the story keep using cash before we are ruined, controlled and manipulated by the system and a big thank you to the girls in the garage ❤️🙏
