The imperfect gift: when no one wants your voucher
Three years ago my sister and brother-in-law gave my wife and I a $25 voucher to a restaurant website as a gift. Let’s say the website was called something jazzy like, oh I don’t know … restaurant.com (that is the name). When I received this gift I thought, cool, we will use this toward a restaurant and then we will eat at that restaurant and I will be happy and satisfied. I logged on to restaurant.com. “Find a restaurant near you!” Okay, restaurant.com! I will do that. Please find the closest restaurant to zip code 85381. Restaurant.com said, “Sorry, zero results.” I expanded my search. How about 10 miles outside of 85381? Can you do that, restaurant.com? “Nope!” How about 25 miles? FIFTY miles? “You can dine at a hotel café in Scottsdale or a Chinese buffet on the border of Glendale and Phoenix.” I chose the Chinese buffet. If you know nothing about my wife and me, you know how much we love to drive 45 minutes to eat at a Chinese buffet. My wife is Ital...