{"id":120,"date":"2015-01-17T07:45:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T15:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=120"},"modified":"2015-01-17T07:45:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T15:45:32","slug":"can-i-get-these-ironed-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Can I Get These Ironed, Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve asked everyone to share their favorite customer stories and here&#8217;s one of mine. \u00a0 In the very first store that I worked in back in the 70&#8217;s, we had a safe in the front of the store (near the registers) \u00a0with a big dial in the middle that looked something like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/safe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119\" src=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/safe.png\" alt=\"safe\" width=\"275\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So a lady walks into our drug\u00a0store carrying an armful of wet clothes, comes to my register and it went something like this:<\/p>\n<p>Customer: (hands me a $5.00 bill) &#8220;Can I have change for the dryer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: \u00a0Sure, what kind of change do you need for it?<\/p>\n<p>Customer: \u00a0(Points to the safe) \u00a0 Well you should know, it&#8217;s your dryer!!<\/p>\n<p>One of my biggest regrets is that I didn&#8217;t just give her some quarters and say &#8220;Go ahead, it only takes one quarter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve asked everyone to share their favorite customer stories and here&#8217;s one of mine. \u00a0 In the very first store that I worked in back in the 70&#8217;s, we had a safe in the front of the store (near the registers) \u00a0with a big dial in the middle that looked something like this: &nbsp; So <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=120\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-stories"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}