Hello Scorpio!
Isn’t that nice? It’s Scorpio time again. Just in time for Halloween, right around the corner. I was shopping for Ma Wetzel the other evening, and having no luck finding her what I was looking for. It came out of an in-flight catalog.
I really detest those in-flight catalogs. All that cool merchandise looks really valuable and entertaining at 25,000 feet over the Midwest. It’s not nearly \\neato\\, **cool** and __keen__ in person.
But it was the genesis of an idea, and I let my fingers for the walking on the web, trying to find that identical product. Which I did find, only, the price was the same, and I’m not sure I trust just \\any\\ online marketing website. So I went back to the “sky mall” website, and the price there wasn’t much different from the price anyplace else, all within a couple of bucks of each other. Here I am, one of the shadowy merchants on the net, and I was playing a game where I didn’t trust some other net merchants.
It’s my built in “BS detector.” Alarms go off when I realize that a net storefront might be gone tomorrow, and my credit card payment goes with them.
By the same token, I’ll pop down a credit card number fast as can be for an airline reservation, or to buy a book, or even to drop a dollar in a tip jar.
Don’t know whom I trust these day.
