{"id":1555,"date":"2005-05-16T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/16\/caveat-emptor\/"},"modified":"2005-05-16T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T16:29:00","slug":"caveat-emptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/16\/caveat-emptor\/","title":{"rendered":"Caveat Emptor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sad thing is, I totally believe this story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several years ago I went to Nordstrom at Christmas to do some shopping. The place was a mad house. The clerk took my credit card to ring up my order at another register. I was watching her as she rang up the card and nonchalantly looked around the store while putting my credit card into her pocket.<\/p>\n<p>When she came back, I asked for my card back, and she kept insisting that she already gave it back to me. Grrrrr!<\/p>\n<p>I called her supervisor over and told her that I wanted my credit card back from that girl&#8217;s back pocket.<\/p>\n<p>The supervisor had her check her pocket, and then kept insisting that it was just an honest mistake.<\/p>\n<p>It sure didn&#8217;t look like a mistake to me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.monstersmallbusiness.com\/lofiversion\/index.php\/t7063.html\">forums.monstersmallbusiness.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And you wonder why I don&#8217;t like dealing with people.  Seriously, I&#8217;d do everything through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonmud.org\/people\/jen\/keynote.html#safe\">mediated interactions<\/a> if I could.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, check out my own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/caveat\/\">CAVEAT EMPTOR<\/a> page for more bad businesses to avoid.  Eternal vigilance is the price of a free market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sad thing is, I totally believe this story: Several years ago I went to Nordstrom at Christmas to do some shopping. The place was a mad house. The clerk took my credit card to ring up my order at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}