old bag at KSAT today mistreats me

[satpak77]

nah her behavior was out of line. I was only in there for like 5-10 minutes, she engaged me at the 3 minute mark

oh well, I need to just let it go

 

[SMOE]

nah her behavior was out of line. I was only in there for like 5-10 minutes, she engaged me at the 3 minute mark

oh well, I need to just let it go

Did you hack your over-sized wrist watch when you walked in or what?

 

[A Squared]

Hey ignoramus, when was the last time you saw a public library outside of Terminal 1. Sometimes that's not an option when you're standing by, waiting for a flight.

Right, and I suspect that DrProc expected you to be able to fill in "the rest of the story" (so to speak) by yourself. Since you apparenty fall a little short of Paul Harvey, I'll fill it in for you: The absence of a public library doesn't entitle you to treat a book *store* as a free lending library, so that you can use thier merchandise and than put it back, slightly wrinkled on the shelf, for free

Also, book stores only keep magazines to attract the gum buyers. They don't buy them until they are sold and those that are not bought go back to the publisher at no cost to the retailer.

While you may be correct that the distributor does not charge the retailer for unsold magazines, the idea that there is "no cost to the retailer" there is a cost to providing the space for selling the item. You priced retail space in an airport terminal recently? It's a store, where things are for sale, for money. It's not a free public lending library. The idea that the magazines are not really for sale, just a lure for customers is utterly absurd and without a shred of basis in reality

It's astonishing the rationalizations one sees for justifying using a store's mercnhandise and putting it back without paying.

You want to read a magazine in a store, buy it. period.

If you don't, don't read it.

If you read it without buying it, expect the staff to occasionally get snippy with you.

 

[Spinn555]

While you may be correct that the distributor does not charge the retailer for unsold magazines, the idea that there is "no cost to the retailer" there is a cost to providing the space for selling the item. You priced retail space in an airport terminal recently? It's a store, where things are for sale, for money. It's not a free public lending library. The idea that the magazines are not really for sale, just a lure for customers is utterly absurd and without a shred of basis in reality

It's astonishing the rationalizations one sees for justifying using a store's merchandise and putting it back without paying.

You want to read a magazine in a store, buy it. period.

If you don't, don't read it.

If you read it without buying it, expect the staff to occasionally get snippy with you.

Agreed.

Two thumbs up

 

[ualdriver]

The old bag behind the cash register, first name Doris or something, approximately 65 years old, with raspy smokers cough and nicotine/meth addict skin, starts to hard-eye me as I flip the pages.......

........and give her my pleasant West Texas greeting and ask her "yall staying busy today" to try to strike up chit-chat

After reading those lines, I thought for sure your story was going to end differently. You didn't tap that?