I needed some wood screen doors for my cabin. After shopping around, and
finding all sorts of things from $160 to $600 per, I was overwhelmed.

One day I'm in Home Depot. I had gotten the price of $160 each there, and
wifey says, "Put the damn things up."

So...............

We get ahold of the door guy. Takes him about 15 minutes to appear. We ask
about wood screen doors, and HOLY SMOKE, BATMAN! here's a guy that knows
something about doors. Takes us straight to them.

He takes us to two 1 1/8" ash frame doors with extruded aluminum inserts
with screen. He says they are $89 each, but one is damaged, and not for
sale. I said to check with the manager and I'd take it if he made me a
deal. The screen had pulled out on one corner. A two minute no cost repair

He disappears and comes back. He says we can have it for $50, a $39
discount. Hey, we're still under the price we got before for ONE, so we say
okay. He puts them on a cart for us and scribbles something on a paper and
says to give it to the cashier.

We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.

Home Depot does suck, but sometimes their stupidity and ineptness works
towards my side of the fence.

Man, those doors look good on my cabin. And the price was right, too.

Steve

"Steve B" wrote in message
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We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.

Your honesty was tested. And you flunked.

lee

"lee houston" wrote in message
t...

"Steve B" wrote in message
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We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.

Your honesty was tested. And you flunked.

lee


Yeah. I remember all those times when, if I hadn't pointed it out to the
cashier that they would have OVER charged me on many items. Funny why that
isn't a two way street.

As to your sermon on honesty:

paraphrasing ...........

watch out for a man who says he's honest. he'll probably lie about other
things as well.

mark twain or will rogers or someone. not me. HONEST!

Steve

"Steve B" wrote in message
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Your honesty was tested. And you flunked.


Yeah. I remember all those times when, if I hadn't pointed it out to the
cashier that they would have OVER charged me on many items. Funny why
that isn't a two way street.

Look dude if you wanna take advantage of a store's stupidity, go ahead. But
don't pretend it's a 2 way street. You DID point it out and you DIDN'T get
overcharged.

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:49:58 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote:


"lee houston" wrote in message
et...

"Steve B" wrote in message
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We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.

Your honesty was tested. And you flunked.

Absolutely.

lee

Yeah. I remember all those times when, if I hadn't pointed it out to the
cashier that they would have OVER charged me on many items. Funny why that
isn't a two way street.

Dishonest and stupid too if you can't see the difference.

As to your sermon on honesty:

paraphrasing ...........

watch out for a man who says he's honest. he'll probably lie about other
things as well.

And someone who says he's dishonest, like you diD, I'm certain lies
and cheats other times too. The reason you're telling the truth is
you know that no one from here is going to go after you here.

mark twain or will rogers or someone. not me. HONEST!

If you were honest you would have told the cashier what you and the
clerk had agreed upon for the price.

You already said you told them when they were going to overcharge you.
They didn't owe you any money.

BTW, neither Lee nor I said we were honest. We said you were
dishonest. Your attempt to attack those who point out the truth
failed because you don't read carefully or you're stupid.

Steve

This is more a question of: are you a moral absolutist or a moral
relativist? A moral absolutist would be against not pointing out to the
clerk that she was undercharging for the doors. A moral relativist might
say: well, HD has made lots of profit off of me over the years (before
Lowe's started springing up), and they provide crappy customer service, so
it is not immoral for me to get these doors for this price.

I am in the moral relativism camp, myself -- seems more fair. I hate
absolutes.

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grappletech wrote:
This is more a question of: are you a moral absolutist or a moral
relativist? A moral absolutist would be against not pointing out to the
clerk that she was undercharging for the doors. A moral relativist might
say: well, HD has made lots of profit off of me over the years (before
Lowe's started springing up), and they provide crappy customer service, so
it is not immoral for me to get these doors for this price.

I am in the moral relativism camp, myself -- seems more fair. I hate
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Moral relativism, and relativism in general is easy to refute. You
cannot assert it as true without setting up an absolute and thereby
defeating your postion.

"Steve B" wrote in message
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$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.
Your honesty was tested. And you flunked.
lee

snip

As to your sermon on honesty:

paraphrasing ...........
watch out for a man who says he's honest. he'll probably lie about other
things as well.

Steve, two short sentences is hardly a 'sermon'.
What rather surprized me is that you seem to be
downright proud that you ripped off a store for
around $250! Your questioning of other's honesty
is simply a red herring. A distraction, not a
justification.

I do hope that you are young and will develop
a better conscience through the years.

Lee

"lee houston" wrote in message
m...

"Steve B" wrote in message
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$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.
Your honesty was tested. And you flunked.
lee

snip

As to your sermon on honesty:

paraphrasing ...........
watch out for a man who says he's honest. he'll probably lie about other
things as well.

Steve, two short sentences is hardly a 'sermon'.
What rather surprized me is that you seem to be
downright proud that you ripped off a store for
around $250! Your questioning of other's honesty
is simply a red herring. A distraction, not a
justification.

I do hope that you are young and will develop
a better conscience through the years.

Lee


I went through three employees. They stated the price and I paid it. My
conscience is clear.

Steve

In article sgCSg.518$BC6.221@fed1read01, "Steve B" wrote:

I went through three employees. They stated the price and I paid it.

That's not the same story you told the first time.

My conscience is clear.

That's the *really* sad part of the whole episode.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:21:44 GMT, "lee houston"
wrote:


"Steve B" wrote in message
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We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.

Your honesty was tested. And you flunked.

lee

We don't know what the "door guy" wrote on the ticket. Perhaps he saw
damage to the second door and amended the ticket price without the
OP's knowledge.
--
Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

Oren wrote:
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:21:44 GMT, "lee houston"
wrote:


"Steve B" wrote in message
news:siiSg.431$BC6.78@fed1read01...

We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I
make eye contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and
then run like hell.

$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.

Your honesty was tested. And you flunked.

lee

We don't know what the "door guy" wrote on the ticket. Perhaps he saw
damage to the second door and amended the ticket price without the
OP's knowledge.

Doesn't matter. The "test" was flunked when he thought he was undercharged and
didn't say anything. The fact that he might have been incorrect doesn't enter
into it.

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:23:57 GMT, "Rick Brandt"
wrote:

We don't know what the "door guy" wrote on the ticket. Perhaps he saw
damage to the second door and amended the ticket price without the
OP's knowledge.

Doesn't matter. The "test" was flunked when he thought he was undercharged and
didn't say anything. The fact that he might have been incorrect doesn't enter
into it.

When they ran like hell is enough indicator the OP "felt" like he got
away. Had he questioned the ticket and the cashier he may have seen a
reduced price or paid the correct price.
--
Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

Oren wrote:
....

We don't know what the "door guy" wrote on the ticket. ...
....

We do, otoh, know what OP _thought_ was on the ticket.

On 26 Sep 2006 17:26:07 -0700, "dpb" wrote:


Oren wrote:
...

We don't know what the "door guy" wrote on the ticket. ...
...

We do, otoh, know what OP _thought_ was on the ticket.

Just tell me how we know. Add a comment on his thought other than
getting away with something.
--
Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

Oren wrote:
On 26 Sep 2006 17:26:07 -0700, "dpb" wrote:


Oren wrote:
...

We don't know what the "door guy" wrote on the ticket. ...
...

We do, otoh, know what OP _thought_ was on the ticket.

Just tell me how we know. Add a comment on his thought other than
getting away with something.
....

Don't have to add a comment, can use his own words...

''... they are $89 each, but ... I'd take it if he made me a deal.
....He says we can have it for $50, a $39 discount. ... She rings up
two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye contact, but don't say a
word. "

Very clearly he (and the wife, too, for that matter) thought they were
buying one door at $89 and another at $50. Whether the slip was
miswritten rather than misinterpreted isn't the point I was making, it
was clear to him that what was rung up wasn't what was intended and
he/they chose to take advantage of the mistake, whoever actually made
it.

as often as people get screwwed over by companies like this, a little
pay back isn't such a bad thing.

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lee houston wrote:
"Steve B" wrote in message
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We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.

Your honesty was tested. And you flunked.

lee

On 27 Sep 2006 03:12:46 -0700, wrote:

as often as people get screwwed over by companies like this, a little
pay back isn't such a bad thing.

I wonder how often that is that people get screwed over.

For me, it's not really possible. I see what they have and how much
they want for it and if it's worth it, I buy it. If it doesn't work,
I"m sure they would take it back, but that's never happened. I return
lots of things because I decide I don't want them, and they've always
given me my money or a credit, which at hardware stores I have no
trouble using.

I suppose on special orders, if you say correctly what you want and
they mess it up, and won't believe you said something different, they
could take your money in advance for something you don't want. But
how often does that happen? Most of the time they get the order
right, and most of the time they don't, they'll redo it.



The only place that owes me payback is the furnace repair company that
replaced my fan motor and left it making the same noise, while saying
it was quieter. I didn't pay them and I expected to win when they
sued me (actually I was supposed to complain long before that and get
it resolved without court, but being depressed made that not happen
too), but I was busy or depressed and didn't show up, and they won.
And I paid. The collection department never even knew of the reason I
didn't pay. Years later the president said I should have complained
to him. Maybe that would have worked.

But taking advantage of a company is not justified because an
incompetent repairman at another company cost me money. To think
otherwise would be like saying if a mugger stole from me or beat me
up, I could pick someone else and steal from him or beat him up.




Empressess #124457

"Steve B" wrote in message
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I needed some wood screen doors for my cabin. After shopping around, and
finding all sorts of things from $160 to $600 per, I was overwhelmed.

One day I'm in Home Depot. I had gotten the price of $160 each there, and
wifey says, "Put the damn things up."

So...............

We get ahold of the door guy. Takes him about 15 minutes to appear. We
ask about wood screen doors, and HOLY SMOKE, BATMAN! here's a guy that
knows something about doors. Takes us straight to them.

He takes us to two 1 1/8" ash frame doors with extruded aluminum inserts
with screen. He says they are $89 each, but one is damaged, and not for
sale. I said to check with the manager and I'd take it if he made me a
deal. The screen had pulled out on one corner. A two minute no cost
repair

He disappears and comes back. He says we can have it for $50, a $39
discount. Hey, we're still under the price we got before for ONE, so we
say okay. He puts them on a cart for us and scribbles something on a
paper and says to give it to the cashier.

We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.

Home Depot does suck, but sometimes their stupidity and ineptness works
towards my side of the fence.

Man, those doors look good on my cabin. And the price was right, too.

Steve
I bought about $15 dollars worth of little stuff. Handed the checker a $20
got $85 in change I flunked the Honesty thing to. Oh well make up for a
small amount of frustration dealing with them, they still owe me. By the
way when I ordered widows for my house the Guy new what he was talking but
it all went to **** from him to the front desk to the manufacturer

Steve
I bought about $15 dollars worth of little stuff. Handed the checker a $20
got $85 in change I flunked the Honesty thing to. Oh well make up for a
small amount of frustration dealing with them, they still owe me. By the
way when I ordered widows for my house the Guy new what he was talking but
it all went to **** from him to the front desk to the manufacturer





The world runs because thankfully, most people would have, had they
caught it, returned the money.

Sure, screw the despot.

What do you think the REAL result of your ethical failure was?

That cashier probably lost her job. What do you suppose the effects of
that were? Maybe nothing. Maybe it cost her her apartment, her sobriety
her marriage.

Would that be your fault?


Hell no.

But you didn't help.

80 bucks you didn't need, versus helping.

Nice choice

Am I ehtically perfect?

No

"yourname" wrote in message
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Steve
I bought about $15 dollars worth of little stuff. Handed the checker a
$20 got $85 in change I flunked the Honesty thing to. Oh well make up for
a small amount of frustration dealing with them, they still owe me. By
the way when I ordered widows for my house the Guy new what he was
talking but it all went to **** from him to the front desk to the
manufacturer





The world runs because thankfully, most people would have, had they caught
it, returned the money.

Sure, screw the despot.

What do you think the REAL result of your ethical failure was?

That cashier probably lost her job. What do you suppose the effects of
that were? Maybe nothing. Maybe it cost her her apartment, her sobriety
her marriage.

Would that be your fault?


Hell no.

But you didn't help.

80 bucks you didn't need, versus helping.

Nice choice

Am I ehtically perfect?

No


Her till balanced at the end of the day if she hadn't made any other
mistakes.

Her sobriety?

What the hell does that mean?

Steve

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:31:54 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote Re I love the way Home Depot
sucks!:

Her sobriety?

What the hell does that mean?

It means you are a scum bag who is too stupid to see what an ass you
are making of yourself. OTOH, it is entertaining to watch you try to
back-track.

For what it's worth, HD has just changed their "Returns" policy. They used
to accept virtually anything without question. Now, the "...reserve the
right to deny returned items".

Also, for what it's worth, me and all my friends stick it to the "Holy H"
every chance we get since Bob Nardelli took over.

"Caesar Romano" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:31:54 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote Re I love the way Home Depot
sucks!:

Her sobriety?

What the hell does that mean?

It means you are a scum bag who is too stupid to see what an ass you
are making of yourself. OTOH, it is entertaining to watch you try to
back-track.

That cashier probably lost her job. What do you suppose the effects
of that were? Maybe nothing. Maybe it cost her her apartment, her
sobriety her marriage.


Chances are, her mistake wouldn't even be caught by the bumbling HD
management. The paperwork would simply appear to them that 2 damaged doors
were sold to one person, unless they have some basic accounting procedures
in place like keeping track of the tickets (signed by a manager) that
indicate the defective item(s). In which case, they'd show 2 doors sold as
defective but only ONE ticket indicating a defect. Chances are, it'll fall
through the cracks.


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On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:49:31 -0500, grappletech
wrote:

That cashier probably lost her job. What do you suppose the effects
of that were? Maybe nothing. Maybe it cost her her apartment, her
sobriety her marriage.


Chances are, her mistake wouldn't even be caught by the bumbling HD
management. The paperwork would simply appear to them that 2 damaged doors
were sold to one person, unless they have some basic accounting procedures
in place like keeping track of the tickets (signed by a manager) that
indicate the defective item(s). In which case, they'd show 2 doors sold as
defective but only ONE ticket indicating a defect. Chances are, it'll fall
through the cracks.


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Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

Well, we leave in the morning for Utah. I'm going to take my receipt back
to the manager and see what he says happened and offer to make it right.

I will advise in about two weeks when I return.

In my absence, try to get along without me and don't fight.

Steve ;-)

"Steve B" wrote in message
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I needed some wood screen doors for my cabin. After shopping around, and
finding all sorts of things from $160 to $600 per, I was overwhelmed.

One day I'm in Home Depot. I had gotten the price of $160 each there, and
wifey says, "Put the damn things up."

So...............

We get ahold of the door guy. Takes him about 15 minutes to appear. We
ask about wood screen doors, and HOLY SMOKE, BATMAN! here's a guy that
knows something about doors. Takes us straight to them.

He takes us to two 1 1/8" ash frame doors with extruded aluminum inserts
with screen. He says they are $89 each, but one is damaged, and not for
sale. I said to check with the manager and I'd take it if he made me a
deal. The screen had pulled out on one corner. A two minute no cost
repair

He disappears and comes back. He says we can have it for $50, a $39
discount. Hey, we're still under the price we got before for ONE, so we
say okay. He puts them on a cart for us and scribbles something on a
paper and says to give it to the cashier.

We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.

Home Depot does suck, but sometimes their stupidity and ineptness works
towards my side of the fence.

Man, those doors look good on my cabin. And the price was right, too.

Steve



if HD cannot hire someone that (see previous post also"Home Depot Sucks")
can't understand a purchase slip(or has not been trained properly)
or can take the time to call for a clarification if its not clear, I say way
to go Steve-o

John H. wrote:


if HD cannot hire someone that (see previous post also"Home Depot
Sucks") can't understand a purchase slip(or has not been trained
properly) or can take the time to call for a clarification if its not
clear, I
say way to go Steve-o

The way HD works on discounts is that department leaders (and maybe
individual clerks) have an allowance they can use for customer goodwill.

Here we have an employee who the OP praised as knowledgeable and helpful.
Because of a mistake by the check-out clerk, not corrected by the OP, this
helpful employee may have exceeded his quota and have some sort of black
mark on his record.

Over and above out-and-out theft, it's a shameful abuse of honor. Pitiful,
really.

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:52:34 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

John H. wrote:


if HD cannot hire someone that (see previous post also"Home Depot
Sucks") can't understand a purchase slip(or has not been trained
properly) or can take the time to call for a clarification if its not
clear, I
say way to go Steve-o

What I think you're saying is that if someone makes a mistake, it's ok
to steal from him.

The way HD works on discounts is that department leaders (and maybe
individual clerks) have an allowance they can use for customer goodwill.

Here we have an employee who the OP praised as knowledgeable and helpful.
Because of a mistake by the check-out clerk, not corrected by the OP, this
helpful employee may have exceeded his quota and have some sort of black
mark on his record.

Over and above out-and-out theft, it's a shameful abuse of honor. Pitiful,
really.

Absolutely.

"John H." wrote in message

if HD cannot hire someone that (see previous post also"Home Depot
Sucks") can't understand a purchase slip(or has not been trained properly)
or can take the time to call for a clarification if its not clear, I say
way to go Steve-o

And the rest of us pay in the long run. "Getting away with it" does not
make it right.

"Steve B" wrote

We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

Gosh Steve, I'll bet you and your wife are real proud.

Running out of a box store after knowingly cheating them. Can you trust
each other, or are you constantly on your toes wondering if the other one
is cheating?

You two deserve each other.

"Johnny V." wrote in message
...

"Steve B" wrote

We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

Gosh Steve, I'll bet you and your wife are real proud.

Running out of a box store after knowingly cheating them. Can you trust
each other, or are you constantly on your toes wondering if the other one
is cheating?

You two deserve each other.

**** you asshole.

I didn't go in there to steal anything.

We didn't cheat anyone.

We did what the people said to do.

We let them do their own math.

We paid what they asked.

And the rest of you sanctimonious pious assholes that act like you're honest
and haven't done anything shady in your lives and still pontificate on the
actions of others can kiss my sorry dishonest ass, too. Too bad you don't
have the honesty to share your stories. Like you wouldn't or haven't done
the same thing. Yeah, right.

Steve

Steve B wrote in message ...
And the rest of you sanctimonious pious assholes that act like you're
honest
and haven't done anything shady in your lives and still pontificate on
the
actions of others can kiss my sorry dishonest ass, too. Too bad you
don't
have the honesty to share your stories. Like you wouldn't or haven't
done
the same thing. Yeah, right.

Steve

You're sounding a lot like a politician. If you didn't expect comment,
and you had to know it was coming, you shouldn't have posted it. :-)

Cheri

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:21:02 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote:


"Johnny V." wrote in message
...

"Steve B" wrote

We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

Gosh Steve, I'll bet you and your wife are real proud.

Running out of a box store after knowingly cheating them. Can you trust
each other, or are you constantly on your toes wondering if the other one
is cheating?

You two deserve each other.

**** you asshole.

I didn't go in there to steal anything.

That's why no one said you committed "premeditated stealing".

We didn't cheat anyone.

We did what the people said to do.

But you knew that most likely the cashier had made a mistake. If
someone misspoke and told you burn down his house, or to push him into
traffic, or in front of a train, would you do it?

We let them do their own math.

But you knew that most likely the cashier had made a mistake.

We paid what they asked.

But you knew that most likely the cashier had made a mistake.

And the rest of you sanctimonious pious assholes that act like you're honest
and haven't done anything shady in your lives

No one said anything about his own level of honesty**. You're
offering a red herring to change the topic.

**(except one person who said he did something similar and agreed that
he flunked the test)

and still pontificate on the
actions of others can kiss my sorry dishonest ass, too. Too bad you don't
have the honesty to share your stories. Like you wouldn't or haven't done
the same thing. Yeah, right.

I suspect that many of those who criticized you let such things happen
when they were much younger, or maybe just younger, but they've
realized it is wrong and they wouldn't do it again. Parents usually
teach their children not to steal, but unless a situation like this
comes up when both the parent and child are present, the child doesn't
have to watch the parent make up his mind what to do, and the parent
can easily forget to talk some other time about every one of the
situations that don't fit the prototypes, like shoplifting, purse
snatching, burglary, etc.

So if the child didn't see a parent deal with this situation, and if
the parents and the religious teachers didn't talk about it, and if no
public school teacher or friend set a good example, or even a stranger
that one might be standing next to while he paid a cashier, it's
possible for someone not to know.

But now you know what everyone here except one person thinks about
this. Maybe if you have time to think about it some more, a few days
or weeks or months, you agree with the rest of us.

Steve

In article helSg.449$BC6.230@fed1read01, "Steve B" wrote:

"Johnny V." wrote in message
...

"Steve B" wrote

We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

Gosh Steve, I'll bet you and your wife are real proud.

Running out of a box store after knowingly cheating them. Can you trust
each other, or are you constantly on your toes wondering if the other one
is cheating?

You two deserve each other.

**** you asshole.

I didn't go in there to steal anything.

We didn't cheat anyone.

Yes, you did.

We did what the people said to do.

We let them do their own math.

We paid what they asked.

And you *knew* they made a mistake.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

"Steve B" wrote
**** you asshole.

I didn't go in there to steal anything.

We didn't cheat anyone.

We did what the people said to do.

We let them do their own math.

We paid what they asked.

And the rest of you sanctimonious pious assholes that act like you're
honest and haven't done anything shady in your lives and still
pontificate on the actions of others can kiss my sorry dishonest ass,
too. Too bad you don't have the honesty to share your stories. Like you
wouldn't or haven't done the same thing. Yeah, right.

Great defense Steve, you can try to justify your dishonesty as much as you
care to do.

BTW, I constantly have cashiers trying to give me back more than they
should. If this was going to make me or break me, it may cross my mind to
be dishonest like you. Then again, better judgement would tell me, not in
this life-time.

LOL, I'll bet your "friends" hide all their valuables when you and your
wife drop by.

Thanks for sharing your true colors, I have to admit, you were honest about
being a thief.

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:19:36 -0400, "Johnny V."
wrote Re I love the way Home Depot sucks!:

LOL, I'll bet your "friends" hide all their valuables when you and your
wife drop by.

They would have to be even dumber than him to even let them into their
house.

Johnny V. wrote:
"Steve B" wrote

We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

Gosh Steve, I'll bet you and your wife are real proud.

Running out of a box store after knowingly cheating them. Can you trust
each other, or are you constantly on your toes wondering if the other one
is cheating?

You two deserve each other.



Nicely done.

Bob

Steve B writes:

My wife and I make eye
contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

So for all of $39 you became a thief?

as often as people get screwwed over by companies like this, a little
pay back isn't such a bad thing.

Empressess #124457


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