I always loved Sweet Tarts. Currently love Chewy Sweet Tarts.
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Usually those places let you enter in a phone number. area code + 867-5309 has about a 90% success rate in my experience.
I hadn’t seriously considered just lying to them…
I frequently lie to places, especially ones I am never going to visit again. I also give names other than my own when people ask for a name at a restaurant. Only the ones I frequently visit know my actual name.
I often give a fake name at coffee shops and takeout places because my real name is hard to pronounce, and it’s just easier to give them something that I’ll recognize when they say it. But that feels different, because the only reason they want a name is to alert me when my order is ready.
Please tell us you use Lucy. Please.
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“Wilde Party of 6… I’m looking for the Wilde Party…”
Not speaking for OP but give me the good ol American lovin’ cylinder of sweet chalk dust disks any day.
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If I wanted chocolate, I’d eat M&Ms.
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Would you be satisfied with “Pat”?
Yes I would, RN.
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OMG, that’s brilliant!!!
When gas stations first started asking for zip codes, I’d always input 90210… until they started cross-checking that it matched what’s on the credit card. And… I didn’t actually live in Beverly Hills, so of course it didn’t match.
Now that I’m out of Oregon, most of my gas comes from Costco and they don’t ask, so I mostly don’t have to do this.
I like both the American and the Canadian versions. 
But I did wonder which ones people were giving out for Halloween.
I thought the only reason gas stations asked for zip code was to check if it matched the card’s data, to reduce theft. I’m shocked there was ever a time it worked to enter the wrong zip code.
Yeah, maybe 15 years ago or so. It was when they first started doing it. Maybe I had old credit cards that didn’t have my zip code in the magnetic stripe… no clue.
But for maybe a year entering 90210 always worked, and then it sometimes worked for like a month or four, and then it worked close enough to never that I stopped trying.
In my area, you get asked for zip code because the county sales tax rates are based upon where you live, not where you shop. For small ticket items it doesn’t much matter but there was a big concern when an increased county tax was put in place in my county but not any of the other ones in the area. For some strange reason, furniture and tv sales decreased in our county but increased in the neighboring ones. Then there was a crackdown of some sort and now you get asked for your zip code. I had the zip code memorized for a 0% sales tax state for a while just for this purpose.
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That’s kind of a dumb rule.
I do my mom’s Ohio taxes now. Ohio’s rule is SUPER logical. She lives in Hamilton County, which has a 2.05% sales tax on top of the state 5.75% sales tax.
Let’s say she’s buying a $1,000 iPhone.
Option 1: Buy in Hamilton County. Pay 7.8% tax at time of purchase.
Option 2: Buy in neighboring Butler County where the county sales tax is only 0.75%. Pay 6.5% at time of purchase.
Option 3: Buy in Oregon. Pay 0% sales tax at time of purchase. Report purchase on income tax form and pay 7.8% as an added tax at income tax time.
Option 4: Buy in Akutan, AK. Pay 1.5% sales tax at time of purchase.
(Akutan, AK was the lowest non-zero sales tax rate I could find.)
If she pays any sales tax when she buys the phone, doesn’t matter how much, she owes nothing on her income taxes. But if she pays no sales tax at all then she gets hit for the whole 7.8% at tax time. Perfectly logical!!!
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How will they know if she “forgets” to include out of state transactions on her tax return?
Illinois tried to play this game back when Amazon collected no sales taxes. Illinois tried to get you to 'fess up to pay some extra sales tax on the income tax return, but there was absolutely no remission of sales records to the Illinois Dept of Revenue, so they could not enforce anything.