School teacher accidentally gives $5,000 tip instead of $5: ‘I don’t have that kind of money’

SAN BRUNO, Calif. (KGO) - A California woman has been haunted by extra zeroes.

Linda Mathiesen thought she was leaving a $5 tip at a store, but it ended up being a $5,000 charge.

Mathiesen struggles with a shoulder issue. She went to a Peninsula vape store to purchase CBD relief gel to ease her pain.

Receipts show the total for her items was $129.28.

Feeling generous, yet short at the tall checkout stand, Mathiesen left what she thought was a $5 tip.

“He says, Enter a tip.’ Well, when I did, there’s no decimal point, so I’m like this on my tiptoes and I push what I thought was only two zeros, ended up being three zeros,” Mathiesen described. “I said, ‘Wait, I want to delete this,’ and he says, ‘I don’t know how to delete it.’”

Instead of voiding the transaction, receipts show the cle