I was just getting ready to have a bowl of cold cereal when my brother called yesterday and invited me to breakfast. Couldn’t pass that up!
One of the things we talked about was the number of times we see comments from friends or acquaintances on social media and they just seem to be way off base from reality. It is hard to pass by without saying something and yet there is no point in upsetting them when we know they might not listen to reason. There is such a cesspool of half-truths, innuendo and outright lies circulating the media and Internet; most of it so blatantly false you have to wonder why people fall for it.
Cognitive dissonance. Cognitive bias.
MjL 04 Mar 2017, 6:58 a.m.
#Technology I tried to pay our bill this morning at The #CrackerBarrel with my smart phone but the cashier girl absolutely refused to cooperate. Every time I tried to scan the smart phone she would push buttons on the cash register and it would void. She insisted she had to push the buttons for it to work and wouldn’t listen when I kept telling her it works EXACTLY like a credit card.
I finally just paid cash. I could have demanded to get a manager or something but decided it wasn’t worth the hassle. Many times cashiers have it in their head that all smart phones work like Apple Pay and they don’t. But they have never been properly trained and they just will NOT listen to reason.
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