odespinner

An Aussie journo walked into a bar and ordered a beer. He paid by card and was not wearing his glasses, but suspected something was wrong. It wasn’t the beer (which was a prize-winning success, including the Supreme Champion Beer of Britain).

No, the mistake was how much he had been charged for his pint. £55,315.12 or roughly 100,000 Australian dollars. You’d think his bank would cancel the transaction or flag it up as a very large amount for a point of sale purchase. But they charged him a further £1,000 to process the transaction.

Let’s hope his press coverage of the Ashes Test series isn’t soured by his experience of British hospitality while he waits for the overcharge to be refunded.