Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.
Have you thought about participating in Theme Thursday or submitting a photo to Picture Yourself in the past? Well, here is your chance to do both! This week’s theme for Theme Thursday is to take a picture of yourself – and submit it to both sites! Then over the next week or so (depending on how many are submitted), your photos will be posted on Picture Yourself. How cool is that?
So, this Thursday … how do you Picture Yourself?
If you’re using the default skin on my blog and you look at the very bottom of the sidebar on the left, you will see two text links. You may have seen them on the sites of other bloggers too. What are they? Links that I’ve been paid to post. No special requirements or anything, just post the links and be paid well. Want in? Let me know and I will pass your information on to the appropriate people and you can sign up too. Yeah, I probably get a referral fee for sending you – and you will get money too.
So you may say I’m selling out, but really it’s a win-win situation for all of us! Let me know if you’re interested!
Last week I went on a book binge at Half Price Books. It is amazing what they have for only a quarter, sometimes fifty cents. Great books that I’ve always wanted to read – it’s almost as much fun as getting a good find at a garage sale. I love that feeling of victory, as if you are conquering something great and huge by getting such a good deal.
As I stood at the counter with my $3.00 worth of books, the man at the next register was finishing up his purchase. He went to pay with his American Express card, and the cashier politely asked to see his ID.
“I do NOT have to show you my license. That is a federal crime asking for that, and I WILL NOT SHOW IT TO YOU!”
She apologized and asked him to calm down. She explained that it was management’s policy, she was just doing as she was told to do.
“Then your management IS STUPID!”
She remained calm – amazing if you ask me, because while I am a patient person, I might have just snapped by that point. Again, she asked him to calm down.
“I will NOT calm down! You do not need to see my license, that is a crime to even ask for it. Once you see my license, you have two-thirds of the information you need to steal my identity!”
She explained that she is not writing anything down, all she is doing is checking the photo and the signature. She calmly states that it is just a safety precaution, to verify that the person using the card is the legitimate owner. She tells him that she doesn’t need to see his ID though if he is not comfortable with it, she will simply complete the transaction. He can make his purchase, have his books and go home.
This is not enough to please this man.
He shows her his ID, covering the address information with his thumb. She graciously thanks him for showing it to her, quickly glances at it to reassure him that she is not copying down any pertinent information, and completes his purchase. The whole time, he is still grumbling about identity theft and how in California it is illegal to ask for ID with a credit card purchase, matter of fact it’s a federal crime. (I guess he realized he was in Texas at the moment, and California’s laws don’t matter here.)
The most amusing part for me? If you’re really so adamant about this, convinced that store clerks are going to steal your identity and all that, wouldn’t you be even more worried about the conspiracy theory ideas floating around out there and the fact that the credit card companies can track your every move based on the purchases you made? Because in the grand scheme of things, I would be a lot more worried about that. Maybe it’s just me… or maybe they really are watching all of us.
It’s nice to have my weblogs back after messing things up yesterday, which prevented me from posting and you from commenting. To celebrate, I’ve added six new photos to Pixelog. Enjoy!
Maybe it’s just me, but “Sixteen Candles,” 16 Years Later, aka 32 Candles, is just wrong. Some movies should never have sequels. They should stand, proud in their perfect form, just as they are. 16 Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Breakfast Club are those movies for me.
Keep your money grubbing hands off of them, you crazy fools!
[Spotted on the Captivate elevator monitor, reminded of by Sarah.]