I don’t blame her.
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I keep saying that the rise of automation and robots will make sabotage popular again. 
Next we’ll have customer service, cashier, and therapy bots behind plexiglass:
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I’ve called it the Doctor Who paradigm… if you walk into a room, and pretend like you know what you’re doing, everyone will fall in line and defer to you. Of course, if you’re not a timelord, it helps to have things like a clipboard or apparently a lint roller!
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We used to do that with a clipboard in high school.
Walk into a classroom - make a note- walk out.
Never stopped.
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This is what I want to do to those automated airplane ticket machines in airports.
Grrrrrrr!
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They should tour the world solving mysteries!
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The auto-checkout at the grocery last night.
Put a bag of loose yellow onions on the scale, hit non-barcode, type yellow, select yellow onions, it asks for quantity. What? Apparently I had to type onions yellow. I’ve worked on point of sale systems. That was a POS system.
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Today’s* version?
I’m thinking a six-month old Tesla for 10K, but that’s probably not a fancy enough ride.
*I mean, um, tomorrow’s? Next month’s? 
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If their system funnels you into paying the price of a single onion for a bag of onions is that your fault?
QTY = 1
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QTY 1 was more than the price of the loose onions.
The other attendant intervention on that check out was for a couple thick slices of roast beef from the counter with a lot of pan drippings added (after the weighing). The barcode sticker was on top, and no way was I going to tip it to the scanner and gravy their machine. The hand scanner couldn’t read the sticker.
The only reason I went to the auto-checkout at all was because they only had one human checkout and a long line-up for that.
The worst part of their system is that everything has to be placed on the outgoing platform that weighs everything. Heaven help you if you brought your own bags and didn’t select “Own bags” at the start and place them on the platform. Then, then, at the end it asks you how many bags you want to pay for. “None you piece of junk, because I brought my own bags, like I told you at the start!”
Every store’s auto-checkout has its own stupid quirks and I don’t work for any of those stores.
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He probably should have googled how to wear an oxygen mask, It’s not on properly.
Is he this sloppy with all his cons?
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It came off as a parody of… the interview he’s participating in… 
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Ah, Walter Thornton and his Chrysler Imperial 75. They sold new for around $27,500 in todays money. Not quite Tesla money in today’s dollars, but relative to the $1300\yr annual income in 1930, it was considered an expensive luxury car.
Thornton started and ran a very successful modeling agency—one of the largest in the country up through 1950. His agency represented Lauren Bacall and Grace Kelly, among many others. He and his agency created the “Pin-up Girl” that became popular among GIs during WW2. He was a wealthy guy, even when he staged this photo.
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Wow, interesting.
Prescient too, having the model talking on a cell phone. 
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It’s the TMNT / Transformers mash up we’ve been waiting for!
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