While My Mother-in-Law Shopped With My Husband’s Mistress on My Card, I Made One Call

the card into the chip reader.

Beep.

The associate frowned and tried again.

Beep.

DECLINED. CALL ISSUER.

“That is impossible,” Elaine snapped. “That is a limitless card. Run it again.”

“It is a hard decline, ma’am. Do you have another form of payment?”

Elaine pulled out a second card. Declined.

A third. Declined.

“Is there perhaps a card in your own name?” continue reading …