Does money buy happiness?
David: I can sympathize with you. I dress VERY casually outside of my ‘office job’. Sometimes I go the bank and such on weekends looking downright sloppy. Generally I get a kick out of the reaction when some teller thinks I am there to turn in a jar of pennies or something and I am really having funds transferred for a real estate deal and their attitude goes from “how quick I can get this bum back on the street” to “how can I make sure this guy doesn’t tell my supervisor I was rude”. Anyhow I have a business associate that is very Hispanic looking, but has lived in the US his whole life. He has told me he would never go to the bank looking like I do for fear that the teller’s biases would come out — they’d think he was a landscaper or day laborer, not a guy that owns a large number of properties and he’d get the third degree about what he was doing with all that money… I do not think these really “discrimination” type situations, but people make all kinds of assumptions about what
