Kind man pays for mum’s Asda shop after card blocked by bank
WOMAN THANKS MYSTERY SHOPPER WHO HELPED HER AFTER PAYMENT WAS DECLINED
A MYSTERIOUS Asda shopper paid for a Hull mum’s shopping when she found her card would not work at the till.
Sonja Turner was at Asda in Bilton with her daughter Phoebe on Sunday, October 24, doing a big shop before her daughter’s second birthday on Tuesday.
When it came to paying for the shopping, she suddenly found her card was declined and had been blocked.
As she was desperately searching for a way to pay up with an increasingly agitated two-year-old in tow, a complete stranger came to her aid and paid for the lot.
Sonja said: “I’d popped out to get a few bits for my daughter’s birthday next week, so it was quite a big shop that I was doing.
“When it came to paying though my card kept declining, I called the bank and they confirmed it was blocked. It was a nightmare I didn’t really know what to do.
“The staff at Asda were really helpful, we went through every different way that I could pay for it trying to authorise it over the phone and through the app.
“The bank unfortunately refused the emergency cash function that they have on accounts because it hadn’t been set up properly on mine.
“I was getting a bit desperate, it was a little bit embarrassing and my daughter was getting restless, I was wracking my brains thinking of a way to pay up.”
It was at this moment that a complete stranger walked over to the customer service desk and offered to pay for the whole shop.
Sonja said: “He came over and just told the staff that he’d pay for it and he did. I couldn’t believe it at the time.
“I told him he didn’t have to and he just said ‘don’t worry about it, love.’
“I said I wouldn’t let him go without me giving him the money that he’d paid for the shop and tried to get him to let me transfer the money to his account on my mobile banking.
“He just said to me ‘don’t worry that is my good deed for the day.’”
Sonja said the whole incident had reaffirmed her belief that there are some good people still in the world and said she had been treated with kindness by both the mysterious man and the store staff.
She said: “It just makes you realise that there are some nice people still around. I wanted to give him the money but he just refused.
“I just want to say thank you to the man whoever he was, I was in a bit of a fluster and he came and helped me when he didn’t have to at all.
“I don’t feel like I thanked him properly at the time because I was so stressed but I hope he knows how thankful I am.”