{"id":852,"date":"2011-08-20T19:48:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T19:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2011-08-20T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T19:48:44","slug":"return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/return\/","title":{"rendered":"return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took myself for a walk today &#8211; bought a tripod for my camera at Walmart, then headed over to Lowe&#8217;s for a dowel rod. \u00a0While I was in line at Lowe&#8217;s I picked up a bottle of tea as well for the walk back. \u00a0That was all I had when I stepped up to the counter &#8211; a dowel rod (for making vampire stakes,\u00a0naturally) and bottle of green tea. \u00a0The cashier rang up the two items, I gave her the money and she asked for my phone number for returns.<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>I told her &#8220;No thanks. \u00a0This is a wooden stick and I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s what I need&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I understand she &#8220;has to say that&#8221; &#8211; as a benefit to the consumer if they need to make a return and have lost their receipt and to the company for their data mining and targeted advertising.<\/p>\n<p>But, a little common sense would have been\u00a0appropriate\u00a0here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took myself for a walk today &#8211; bought a tripod for my camera at Walmart, then headed over to Lowe&#8217;s for a dowel rod. \u00a0While I was in line at Lowe&#8217;s I picked up a bottle of tea as well for the walk back. \u00a0That was all I had when I stepped up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}