{"id":35731,"date":"2013-04-18T21:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T01:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=35731"},"modified":"2020-07-05T21:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T01:45:37","slug":"why-cant-things-like-this-happen-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=35731","title":{"rendered":"Why can\u2019t things like this happen to me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-35732 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chingchong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chingchong.jpg 420w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/chingchong-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/04\/18\/customer-sues-cvs-for-writing-her-name-as-ching-chong-on-receipt\/\">Long story short<\/a>: Korean woman makes transaction with CVS, CVS enters her name as \u201cChing Chong,\u201d woman sues CVS for $1M dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">No seriously, why can\u2019t something like this happen to me?\u00a0 I would love to make an easy $1M on something so foolish and silly.\u00a0 If I went to CVS, and this happened to me, and I busted them right on the spot, I would be laughing myself to tears at seeing Ching Chong written on the receipt.\u00a0 I would laugh for\u00a0<em>at least<\/em>\u00a0three straight minutes, and try to gauge the reaction of the people behind the counter, the perpetrator likely amongst them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And then with an amused smile on my face, I would simply ask them if they\u2019d ever been sued, and regardless of what the answer would be, I\u2019d simply retort \u201c<em>well you\u2019re about to be!<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019m not sure how the legal system works, and if I have to give a dramatic justification like \u201cdamages,\u201d or \u201csevere distress\u201d to why I\u2019m suing CVS for a million dollars, but if I didn\u2019t, I seriously would consider the reasoning to be along the lines of \u201cteach them a lesson lol.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Would I be damaged or distressed about getting called Ching Chong in writing? \u00a0Hell no, but it doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s right to begin with.\u00a0 Sure, there\u2019s all sorts of moral dilemma on a long enough time line in that I\u2019d believe that a million dollars to me is only hurting a company as a conglomerate, and not individuals, or the Robin Hood-like fantasy that I\u2019m taking bonuses from the rich corporate CEOs, and giving to the poor me, and that the reality is that a million to me probably means the layoffs of many lesser employees on the food chain, but honestly, I\u2019d rather look out for myself in this case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I wonder if it\u2019s possibly to specifically sue just CVS\u2019s upper management, and get in writing that there would be no repercussion towards the lower-tier employee base post monetary punishment?\u00a0 Now that would be just desserts, as well as one hell of a story to have in my life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long story short: Korean woman makes transaction with CVS, CVS enters her name as \u201cChing Chong,\u201d woman sues CVS for $1M dollars. No seriously, why can\u2019t something like this happen to me?\u00a0 I would love to make an easy $1M on something so foolish and silly.\u00a0 If I went to CVS, and this happened to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=35731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why can\u2019t things like this happen to me?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,15,52],"class_list":["post-35731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35733,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35731\/revisions\/35733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}