• …And to top off the first day I get a free round trip on the train! Ah I love when humans do jobs that machines do better-like chkng tckts #
• Perfect train timing would be not running, not waiting–just arriving at the platform as doors open & walking on. Close today, 15 secs early #
• Oh how I love the feel of new shoelaces. But it makes me wonder: shouldn’t the laces that came with the shoes last longer than 60 days? #
• @popejephei can you put towns on seratonin uptake inhibitors? #
• I am currently on my 4th consecutive free ride on Metra. I wonder how many times i can ride for free. #

I forget who I was talking to, but the question of whether or not you can bargain at Best Buy came up.  Enter the NY Times:

Frederick Stinchfield, 23, was a Best Buy salesman in Minnetonka, Minn., until last January. He said about one-quarter of customers tried to bargain. Much of the time, he said, he was able to oblige them, particularly in circumstances where a customer buying electronics (like a camera) also bought an accessory (like a camera bag) with a higher markup. He said the cash registers at Best Buy were set up so that prices could be reset at checkout.

Read Even At Megastores, Hagglers Find No Price is Set In Stone at the NY Times.

This echoes what I’ve heard from other sources.  Interesting!