{"id":457,"date":"2006-08-26T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T09:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2006\/08\/26\/maybe_i_dreamed_it\/"},"modified":"2006-08-26T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T09:31:03","slug":"maybe_i_dreamed_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2006\/08\/26\/maybe_i_dreamed_it\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I dreamed it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So on Thursday, I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epson.com\/cgi-bin\/Store\/consumer\/consDetail.jsp?oid=58654752&amp;ref=flo\">a new printer<\/a> at Future Shop:<br \/>\n<b>Me: <\/b>I&#8217;m looking for an Epson multi-function that I saw on your web site.<br \/>\n<b>FS Guy:<\/b> You want to know the price?<br \/>\n<b>Me: <\/b>No, I know the price, I want the machine. It&#8217;s marked down from $99 to $59.<br \/>\n<b>FS Guy: <\/b>[points to $250 machine] Is this it?<br \/>\n<b>Me: <\/b>Um, no. $59.<br \/>\n<b>FS Guy:<\/b> I guess we don&#8217;t have that one.<br \/>\n<b>Me: <\/b>Yes, you do. I checked online, and you have it at this location. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m here.<br \/>\n<b>FS Guy:<\/b> [turning around and practically tripping on actual model] Is this it?<br \/>\n<b>Me:<\/b> Yes! Thanks.<br \/>\n<b>FS Guy:<\/b> [as I pick up my own box, and as box underneath <i>falls on my foot<\/i>] &#8230; [walks away]<br \/>\nThe weirdest part? He didn&#8217;t try to sell me an extended warranty. Not even a little bit. Which was a little disappointing, because I had my whole tirade ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So on Thursday, I bought a new printer at Future Shop: Me: I&#8217;m looking for an Epson multi-function that I saw on your web site. FS Guy: You want to know the price? Me: No, I know the price, I want the machine. It&#8217;s marked down from $99 to $59. FS Guy: [points to $250 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2006\/08\/26\/maybe_i_dreamed_it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maybe I dreamed it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}