text: SIGHnnIced soy caramel macchiato you arethe bomb Like tick tickyou and you alone deserve stars despite your evil origins no I am not going to go into a long rant or tirade about the nefarious motives of the Starbucks Corporationit is like complaining about carbs while eating a pbj sandwichI will let you witness my hypocrisy at another timennHowever I get really annoyed when I have a gift card and for some reason or other the cashier says the card is not working in our machine you will need to call the phone number on the back of the card to get your balance please give us another form of payment Which I invariably do because I would rather just get the transaction over with instead of bickering with people who handle my consumables foods drinksDrinksetcnnHowever that will not stop me from Yelpng my feelings about how you done done me wronghere goesnnn The gift card is for YOUR store well not YOUR store entirely probably but it is certainly more YOUR store than MY store as I imagine you are more likely to claim it than I amin generalblah blah blahsemantics The phone number is on the card in YOUR hand The card number is ALSO on the card that YOU are holding And you are the one who is processing the purchase Cashiers are the alchemists of the retail world I push a card through your window you not only return my card to me intactbut you also give me a present sure if you are going to get hung up on details I BOUGHT the presentbut you cannot tell that just from looking at the cardand a receipt ok the receipt kind of gives you a clue that it is not REALLY a presentbut who looks at receipts anyway Not I said the cat nnIts awesome Ohoops sorry I got distractedback to the pointnnWhy are not YOU able to get the balance of the card andor type in the digits nnIts not like I am going to go to starbuckscom to buy apparel That are not my styleThe card is going to have to be used at an actual brick and mortar store because I tend to use Starbucks cards forand you can call me crazy if you would like in fact please doit gives me a warm tingly feeling all overor maybe that is the mischievous frolicsome is that a word Wellit is now coffeebeany pheromones wafting up to my nose sending a nearly instantaneous salivary response from my brain to my drooling mouthmmmcaffeine coffeeor sometimes tea if I am feeling froggy The cards magnetic strip will quite likely ALWAYS be faultybut one way or another you are going to need to figure out how to get that off of the card and into your accounts receivable department at a timennandnnWell there is no nnSo cashierfor the benefit of everyone else out there with a goodgiftcardgonebad please just type in the dang number and we can all move on with our livesn nThanks