goin to CA soon, to be a CC tychoon

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Tue Jun 10 13:38:00 2003

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> Yes, I do believe that, otherwise why would they employ the practice? The
> fact is, they check everyone's receipt because they don't trust their
> customers. It's not my paranoia, it's theirs.
They do, and so what? I'm not stealing anything, so I cannot be
bothered by them wanting to check my bag in the hopes to find the
bad guys. Similar to some woman freaking out at the (SFO) airport,
'cos one of the green boys wanted to search her bag. If you have
nothing to hide, why bother screaming?

> > If you want to talk about long lines, waits and delays, how about the
> > DMV?
>
> You know, in California, there's a law in the Vehicle Code that says that
> no patron of the DMV shall have to wait in line more than something like 4
> minutes. It doesn't lay out what the repercussions are if you are made to
> wait longer than that time, but I haven't had a chance to test it out yet.
DMV San Jose took me, oh, an hour. SMV Santa Clara usually takes me
the same.. only DMV Mtn Vw takes me ~15 mins, sometimes longer. It
helps bunches if you actually speak (or, at least, understand)
English, unlike several people from apparently Korea who demanded
their gramma was given a drivers license. Sadly, she didnt speak
a word of English, couldnt read it either (so much for the YIELD
sign..) and got into frantic-rage mode when made clear that she
could not get a license, as she could not even be asked her
name.

[MUCH later that day, I heard that they arrested her family for
threatening the girl at the counter...]

Lines are, afaik, a fact of life. I don't like them, but cannot
change it, so.. dont really care. Altho DMV *could* check out
how the folks at In-N-Out prcess lines of people wanting to be
served :)

--f
Received on Tue Jun 10 2003 - 13:38:00 BST