Claim: A customer closed out his million-dollar account after his bank refused to validate a 50ยข parking ticket.
Status: True.
Origins: A
well-loved urban legend has it that a shabbily-dressed man mistreated by an uppity clerk returns the next day to buy out the establishment for the sheer pleasure of firing the ill-mannered service person. It's a tale that strikes a chord in all of us -- who hasn't indulged in exactly this fantasy when confronted by a snooty salesman whose manner implies we're not good enough to be in his store, let alone have him bother to wait upon us? Moments like that make each of us want to reveal ourselves as millionaires in disguise, if only to turn the tables on the superior-acting one.
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/barrier.asp
Status: True.
Origins: A
well-loved urban legend has it that a shabbily-dressed man mistreated by an uppity clerk returns the next day to buy out the establishment for the sheer pleasure of firing the ill-mannered service person. It's a tale that strikes a chord in all of us -- who hasn't indulged in exactly this fantasy when confronted by a snooty salesman whose manner implies we're not good enough to be in his store, let alone have him bother to wait upon us? Moments like that make each of us want to reveal ourselves as millionaires in disguise, if only to turn the tables on the superior-acting one.
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/barrier.asp
Good one, Annie!
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