About a decade ago, I was a board member (and founding chapter member) for an young civil-rights organization. There's a reason I'm no longer active with the org, and I was reminded of it over the last couple days.
An article was posted to the org's blog about alcohol. Being in the business of booze, I had a well thought out comment (I'm not including it here, due to the potential for Fratching) regarding the difficulty that various alcohol-related laws caused for me as a professional liquor slinger. One of the younger members of the org replied as such:
I, being me, had this to reply:
As of yet, no reply. I almost hope he has a reply, to dig his hole deeper.
An article was posted to the org's blog about alcohol. Being in the business of booze, I had a well thought out comment (I'm not including it here, due to the potential for Fratching) regarding the difficulty that various alcohol-related laws caused for me as a professional liquor slinger. One of the younger members of the org replied as such:
(KiaKat), I have a question for you.
When I was a teenager, I would go on “beer-runs” — go into liquor store, grab beer (or liquor), and then run — and would afterword send the liquor store a check for the goods. If more people followed this practice, (KiaKat), would it make your job easier?
When I was a teenager, I would go on “beer-runs” — go into liquor store, grab beer (or liquor), and then run — and would afterword send the liquor store a check for the goods. If more people followed this practice, (KiaKat), would it make your job easier?
(Idiot), what you are doing is called theft. Whether or not you send a cheque later, you are taking goods without paying for them. It is illegal, makes prices higher (because stores have to make up for that loss somehow) and puts inordinate amounts of stress on the clerks, managers, owners, and police in the community you are stealing from. It also puts you in danger, because all it takes is one over-zealous clerk chasing you down the street and tackling you in the name of anti-theft practices for you to be seriously injured.
No. It does not make my job easier. It just makes you look like an ass.
No. It does not make my job easier. It just makes you look like an ass.
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