I guess I don't care about bag checks as long as they're checking everyone's bag. As someone whose small family business coildn't afford much loss, shoplifting and bad checks cut deep. We tried lots of policies and gizmos over the years, some of them expensive and intrusive. I honestly felt bad about having to look at someone and refuse their check because they lacked two forms of ID or their check # was under 200 and they lived at a bad address. They didn't know what the stack of bad checks that never got made good on, even with the "help" of disinterested and overwhelmed authorities, looked like. I even had people I knew in RL do it to us. Itboiled down to a chaeck being a promise someone unscrupulous could pretty easily break.
I apologized for our suspicions and explained why we were nervous about checks and shoplifting. I never walk through those metal archways without tensing, though I've only set one off once, and it was the cashier's fault. Better things to waste karmic brownie points on.
I know a lot of these hasslers are just drones of large corporations where stock prices rule the policies, upper management has no fucking clue what the employees and customers face. The concept of striving to be able to pay everyone fairly and generously if possible is a joke, and hassling may be the only job some people are cut out for. I don't like them one tiny speck of a smidgen, but I understand how such a sad practice came to be.
Ssssibilantsss are how one letsss a feline know it iss in trouble. Yessss. Great trouble. Works on canines, too a bit. esspecially thossse raissed bt catsses. (drool, slurp)
If my kitties know more than "Hssssss!" "No!" "Bad!" "Food?" and tone of voice things, they're not admitting to it. They also know their specific calls, but often show up whenever one is called in case it's something fun.
Kitty didn't seem interested in birds, but moths and butterflies caused her to emit a sort of fierceish chittering. If she caught the bug, she'd eat it with an air of "Ew this is gross, but I caught it so I have to do this."
I don't know what all she got into during her outdoor phases. I think flies were screen-savers, to be stared at mindlessly. Not serious prey.
You do realize that I will eventually extract from you the reason that getting toothpaste in your eye involved a cell phone. Or shall I make something up?
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I apologized for our suspicions and explained why we were nervous about checks and shoplifting. I never walk through those metal archways without tensing, though I've only set one off once, and it was the cashier's fault. Better things to waste karmic brownie points on.
I know a lot of these hasslers are just drones of large corporations where stock prices rule the policies, upper management has no fucking clue what the employees and customers face. The concept of striving to be able to pay everyone fairly and generously if possible is a joke, and hassling may be the only job some people are cut out for. I don't like them one tiny speck of a smidgen, but I understand how such a sad practice came to be.
Ssssibilantsss are how one letsss a feline know it iss in trouble. Yessss. Great trouble. Works on canines, too a bit. esspecially thossse raissed bt catsses. (drool, slurp)
If my kitties know more than "Hssssss!" "No!" "Bad!" "Food?" and tone of voice things, they're not admitting to it. They also know their specific calls, but often show up whenever one is called in case it's something fun.
Kitty didn't seem interested in birds, but moths and butterflies caused her to emit a sort of fierceish chittering. If she caught the bug, she'd eat it with an air of "Ew this is gross, but I caught it so I have to do this."
I don't know what all she got into during her outdoor phases. I think flies were screen-savers, to be stared at mindlessly. Not serious prey.
You do realize that I will eventually extract from you the reason that getting toothpaste in your eye involved a cell phone. Or shall I make something up?