{"id":27,"date":"2005-10-24T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/2005\/10\/24\/always-ask-for-a-discount\/"},"modified":"2005-10-24T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T19:00:00","slug":"always-ask-for-a-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/2005\/10\/24\/always-ask-for-a-discount\/","title":{"rendered":"Always ask for a discount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamleys.com\" title=\"Hamleys Toy store\">Hamleys<\/a> is a big toy store, it may be the biggest toy store in the world, at least that&#8217;s what people in London told me. I needed a gift for my nephew, something not available at home. I hoped I could find something interesting and different for him here.<br \/>I was right, I found a card game called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toptrumps.com\/\" title=\"Top Trump Website\" target=\"_blank\">Top Trumps<\/a>. A simple game of choosing the best characteristic from a list and challenging your opponent, the highest score wins.<\/p>\n<p>The cards were not too expensive, about 6&pound; a set, one set would be good, I did get him other stuff too.<\/p>\n<p>As is my usual custom, I asked the cashier for a discount, Se pleasantly refused me. I tried again, What about a <i>tourist<\/i> discount? Again the answer was a polite &#8220;no&#8221; Not one to give up easily, I asked about a <i>Canadian<\/i> discount, again &#8220;no&#8221; OK, my last try, I asked for a <i>cute<\/i> discount, I am cute.<\/p>\n<p>This time I won, she told me that she would give me a 10% managers discount, at least that&#8217;s what she told me it was. I laughed and thanked her. In return I gave her one of my Canadian flag pins. That got me a smile, as usual. She thanked me this time. <\/p>\n<p>I managed to save a whole 60p on the deal, but it was worth it just for the fun of the game. Of course, I <u>always<\/u> ask for a discount.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about me day in London here: &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/gofani.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/sunday-afternoon-in-london.html<br \/>&#8221; title=&#8221; Sunday afternoon in London&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;&gt; Sunday afternoon in London<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamleys is a big toy store, it may be the biggest toy store in the world, at least that&#8217;s what people in London told me. I needed a gift for my nephew, something not available at home. I hoped I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/2005\/10\/24\/always-ask-for-a-discount\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}