"I shouldn't have to read!!" (sort of long)

[Whyme]

Oh no, there's more than one of them!

Had a lady say the exact same thing to me a few years back. I still don't know how to reply to "I shouldn't have to read!". She wanted a huge ass bottle of liquor for something like $2.98 and it was ringing up over twenty. I go to where she leads me, obviously the bottle had been put in the wrong place. Perhaps another customer just left if there (which I explained to her) perhaps she was scamming me. Either way, I said "It's best to read the labels, especially when the price seems too good to be true". She responded with "I shouldn't have to read!". I was completely perplexed and was figuring out what to say when she said "Are you going to give it to me for $2.98?" and I said "No.".

I like to read labels so I know what I'm getting and the price is correct, etc, etc.

[edible_hat]

More often than not the response to my, "That information was in the license agreement you accepted when you installed the program"

is,

"I never read those!" delivered in a smugly satisified tone which implies they've scored some sort of point.

To be honest, I don't usually read pages long license agreements before accepting them myself; I don't have time. But I don't for a minute think that not reading it means it doesn't apply to me.

I heard about one software company that put "the first person to call XXX-XXXX will get $10,000" in one of their license agreements. They had over 10,000 downloads before somebody called for the money.

[jacxnomore]

The really funny part of the whole thing was that as soon as he made his "statement" all I could think about was getting home and posting about it, so I really don't have much of a recollection of the rest of the transaction. I do recall having to fight the urge to ask him if kindergarten had been that traumatic, since reading obviously upset him.