Shop-a-thon Mishap

As some of you may know, I went shopping with a couple girls from work on Wed. after work. To maintain confidentialty (AKA - so boyfriends and husbands don't find out) I will not disclose their names. Anyways, we had a great day. We ate at Cheddars, which was delicious! We shopped at Target, Hobby Lobby, Old Navy, Charolette Russe, Forever 21, American Eagle, and ended our day at GORDMANS. We purchased a couple things here and there, but no huge purchases. We reached our last store of the day, Gordmans. I had picked up a couple birthday presents, a picture frame for myself, and a couple tanks, but this one friend I was shopping with bought lots of stuff, a whole cart-ful a matter a factly. In her defense, it wasnt all for her. Long story (kinda) short, we went to the register to purchase our goods. She went ahead of me, the guy rang up alllllll her stuff, she gave him the credit card, DECLINED. Oh no no, that can't be right, go ahead try it again, my friend said, again it was DECLINED. She then got her debit card out and ran it once as debit, DECLINED, once as credit, DECLINED. By this time, theres like 10 people behind us looking rather put out and whispering secrets to each other (likely about us...."stupid girls", "how irresponsible", "I bet her husband doesnt even know she has a problem"). I said to my friend, we can just put it on my debit card and u can pay me back later, at this point I would have done anything to get us out of this situation, we were both pretty mortified. Sooo I whipped my debit card out. All be damned if my card didn't get DECLINED! I said okay okay, nooo way. theres got to be something wrong with your computer system, we've not shopped that much today. The cashier, who may I note acted as if he had just got done smoking a dooby, called his manager to the front desk. She typed in a couple buttons, and tried each of our credit cards, debit cards, etc....and once again we were DECLINED. At this point, I would have liked to put a bag over our heads and walk out of the store, never to return. Thankfully, our obviously more responsible friend came to the rescue and her card worked. We packed up our stuff and rannnn out of the store. I was running on fumes d/t working the night before, therefore I laughed for a good 20 minutes after leaving the store. How funnnnyyyy......In our defense we did NOT spend that much money, but I think it was because we had used our cards so many times or went over a pre-determined limit set by our card companies. Even though it was very embarressing, it gave us a good laugh and it made for a great ending to an even greater day with the girls. I had a blast, girls. We've got to do that more!