163 points

You canโ€™t cancel your reservation within 24 hours. You can rebook it. Okay, rebook it for one week out. Call back a day later, cancel.

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Why wait the extra day, Just do it in the same call. They donโ€™t get paid enough to give a shit. And if they do, you technically havenโ€™t broken any rules.

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Yeah, Iโ€™m Canadian. Thus, non-confrontational by nature. Now, If I was answering a call and someone did that, Iโ€™d let them get away with it, 100%.

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9 points

Managers audit those calls. Source: Iโ€™ve worked in three call centers.

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1 point

And why should the customer care?

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106 points

My brother-in-law didnโ€™t want to carry his jacket around at Disney World, and he didnโ€™t want to get a locker for it, so he had his dad turn it in to lost and found. At the end of the day, before leaving the park, he picked it back up.

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Somebody else couldโ€™ve taken that.

The lost and found at my school sometimes gathers interest on some items. Umbrella on a rainy day got 4 people claiming itโ€™s theirs. But a golden chain is still winning at 8 people claiming it as theirs.

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21 points

Thatโ€™s why you hide the item and get the person claiming itโ€™s theirs to tell you a piece of identifying information about the item so they can prove itโ€™s theirs.

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Welp, my school just sends everyone pictures of the items and waits who claims it.

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4 points

That just sounds like a flea market.

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Ingenius! Even more ingenious: every time you leave go to lost and found and pick up a free random jacket.

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105 points

Donโ€™t be a dick to service workers. Your entire life will be better.

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Not really โ€œloopholeโ€, more like common sense

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26 points

Or basic manners. Although, if you want to consider basic manners a loophole, Iโ€™m okay with that. It doesnโ€™t matter how you get there.

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16 points

But a service worker knows lots of loopholes, and they can help you take advantage of them or choose not to bring it up if youโ€™re treating them badly.

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13 points

This isnโ€™t a loopholeโ€“just how any decent human being should behave.

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I think working retail should be a mandatory thing like how military service is mandatory in some countries.

Everyone should have to serve their time doing retail so that they can have a bit of empathy

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Alright, so, in Texas youโ€™re not allowed to own an opossum as a pet. There is no license for owning a pet opossum (theyโ€™re โ€œfur-bearing animalsโ€). However, there is a license thatโ€™ll let you kill opossums for their fur. Furthermore, said license allows you to trap them. The interesting part is that thereโ€™s no legal requirement for you to actually kill the opossum if you trap one. You can trap the opossum and take possession of it for however long you like.

So basically a hunting license (might have been a trapping license?) lets you effectively own an opossum as a pet in Texas!

Edit: also, yes, opossums are as soft as they look, which is why people used to hunt them for their fur. I got a chance to pet one and it was about as soft, if not softer, than a cat. Also very boney, like cats.

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18 points

I kinda get the impression they bite, a lot.

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I grew up in FL and had a โ€œpetโ€ opossum for a while. Her mom was hit by car when she was a baby and she crawled up to our front door during a rain storm. My mom was heart broken when she realized what happened so she let us keep her till she was old enough to be released. She was super cuddly and would crawl up on your neck and lick your hair. We partially potty trained her using dog pee pads. The only down side is she liked to borough in our couch so we had to move the couch often and clean it out.

Once she was an adult we would let her out at night when other opossums in the neighborhood were around. She usually came back in the morning and would eat a bunch of food. One day she didnโ€™t come back so I hope she integrated with the local opossums and lived a happy life.

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15 points

they hiss and act like a bad ass but they are naturally bug eaters, not a lot of fight in them

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Iโ€™ve never hung out with one, but they were common in my neighborhood growing up and they were honestly pretty nonviolent. They just play dead instead of aggressing , but I also never pushed them to interact

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10 points

Nope, theyโ€™re mostly all bark, no bite. You have to actually harass them to get them to bite you, even if theyโ€™re showing their teeth. Their bite strength is one of the lowest among mammals too. That said, supposedly their teeth are actually really sharp.

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6 points

My friend has one and nope, no biting! He pretends heโ€™s a raccoon (she had a herd of raccoons as well)

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6 points

They like to show their teeth but they donโ€™t like to bite

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Iโ€™ve pet a lot of opossums. Not been bit by oneโ€ฆ But those teeth are scary.

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An โ€˜exploitโ€™ along somewhat similar lines works for having a cat (or dog) as a pet in Waahington State:

Tons of apartments or rented out rooms of houses will say that they do not allow cats.

Basically, if you can go to a therapist, counselor, paychologist and tell them hey I really love my cat, he/she cheers me up when Iโ€™m down, Iโ€™d definitely become depressed if he/she ever ran away or I had to part ways with him/herโ€ฆ

Now this cat is your registered emotional support animal.

This costs you nothing beyond the normal cost of visiting your mental health specialist.

By law, it doesnโ€™t matter what a landlordโ€™s stance on allowing cats (or dogs) is, if it is officially your emotional support animal, it can live with you, and the landlord is legally barred from charging you a pet deposit or monthly pet rent/fee.

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Back in the day they were โ€œsellingโ€ dollar coins through tv. It was legal tender so banks had to accept any deposit of it. The U.S. mint offered free shipping in the continental U.S.A.

Some smart folks started buying them with their credit card that offered air travel miles as a reward. Then they took all the coins and depositing them in their bank and paid off their CC. Rinse and repeat.

Yes they were out no money and had thousands of dollars worth airline miles.

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One of the sub plots to Punch Drunk Love, and a true story.

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4 points

donโ€™t those coins cost more than their face value? you are talking commemorative coins yeah?

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Commemorative coins do cost more that is correct. However this was not those. This was when the US mint was essentially attempting to phase out the dollar bill and replace it with a coin.

Keep in mind this was late 90s early 2000s.

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