[Nfbmo] Have a business that decided to rip me off

Fri Aug 15 18:27:47 UTC 2014

The usual NFB bullshit.

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From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of James Moynihan
via Nfbmo
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 9:43 AM
To: Gary Wunder; NFB of Missouri Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Have a business that decided to rip me off

That was interesting especially the kiss.

jim moynihan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Wunder via Nfbmo" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
To: "'Jordan Gallacher'" <jordanandseptember at gmail.com>; "'NFB of Missouri
Mailing List'" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Have a business that decided to rip me off

> Hello, Jordan. I don't believe I've seen any responses to your 
> question on the list, but it may be that I have not been diligent in my
search.
>
> It is hard to know how you can do anything that will be economically 
> significant to you. Filing a court case over fifteen dollars will be a 
> tough proposition financially. What proof can anyone bring to a court? 
> When it gets to be my word against your word, how can a judge 
> determine which of us is telling the truth?
>
> I don't know what the experiences of other people on the list are, but 
> I don't think this is ever happened to me. My father recently asked me 
> how many times people have taken advantage of me because I cannot see 
> the bills that I give them. In truth I can't think of a time when I 
> came up short and thought it was thievery. I can, however, think of 
> countless times when I have handed someone a bill, and they have saved 
> me from myself by telling me that I did not hand them a ten but a 
> twenty. I can also think of humorous times when this is happened as 
> when I asked a waitress to accompany me through a salad bar that cost 
> six dollars, meant to give her a ten, accidentally gave her a twenty 
> dollar bill, and didn't realize it until she jumped over the bar, gave 
> me a kiss, and told me that she had prayed to God that very morning 
> about how she was going to make her rent and that I had given her 
> enough to do that. I liked the hug, enjoyed the kiss, and did not tell 
> her that I had made a mistake and only intended to give her four 
> dollars for the trip to the salad bar. I was plenty content to, at 
> least for that moment, be the agent that God had promised.
>
> Warmly,
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jordan 
> Gallacher via Nfbmo
> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 9:36 PM
> To: Nfbmo at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Nfbmo] Have a business that decided to rip me off
>
> I think we have all probably have had this happen at least once in our 
> lives, but this seems to be the worst I have ever seen a business do 
> to me.
> Read on to find out what happened, and for any Blind person or sighted 
> person stay away from The Bell in Liberty, MO
>
> I used to be a regular at The Bell until June 29th.  I went there at 
> about
> 7:00 that night and ordered my usual, the French Dip.  At right about 
> 8:00 the waitress came by and asked if I was ready for my Bill, and I said
Yes.
> She went away with it, came back, and just threw it on the table.  I 
> never did locate it.  No big problem for me since I knew what the 
> total was going to be, $14.50.  I paid in Cash that night.  I had 
> $8.00 of Bills and
> $17.25
> in quarters, which is 69 quarters.  So, I pulled the $8.00 out and 
> counted out, carefully, $6.50 in quarters, which is 26 quarters.  The 
> waitress comes back and tries to tell me that I only gave her $9.75.  
> I knew that not to be correct, and I stood my ground.  A manager came 
> out and tried the same stunt, and I finally just got up and left.  I 
> really did not care that I was told never to come back because I never 
> would go back there after that anyway.  I arrived back at my apartment 
> and decided to count the quarters I had remaining in my pocket.  I had 
> 43 quarters remaining.  I find it absolutely appaling that the owner 
> of the business is not even realizing that there is a problem and 
> tells me it's my fault.  How do I love it when businesses try to take 
> advantage of me as a Blind person.  I want to know how best to proceed 
> against this business at this point.
>
> Jordan
>
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