President Obama can commiserate.
Speaking to workers at
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington on Friday, he
recalled a moment last month when, at the end of a dinner out in New
York City, his plastic was declined.
"I guess I don't use it
enough, so they thought there was some fraud going on," he said.
"Luckily, Michelle had hers. I was trying to explain to the waitress
that I've really been paying my bills."
The President and first
lady dined at Estela in downtown Manhattan during Obama's stay in New
York for the annual United Nations General Assembly session in
September.
Based on a photo of their
kitchen order that the restaurant posted online, we know the Obamas
dined on burrata with salsa verde and charred bread, and an endive salad
with walnuts and anchovies.
The restaurant is run by a
former staffer at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, a farm-to-table mecca in
the Hudson Valley where the Obama family attended the wedding of their
personal chef this summer.
Obama was at the financial agency Friday to sign an executive order bolstering security measures for government credit cards.