I brought a pair of slacks into a new alteration shop to have them hemmed. I returned a week later to pick them up. When I handed the proprietor my check, she saw that my bank was located out of town and refused to accept the check.
I told her—truthfully—that my bank is one of the most respected financial institutions in the country, but she wasn’t interested. It was her policy, she said, never to accept out-of-town checks. I replied that my local address was printed on the check, but that wasn’t good enough for her.
I then asserted that if she had such a fussy policy about accepting checks, it was her obligation to post a policy sign to that effect or otherwise inform me of such when I dropped off the slacks; since she had not ...
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