Check into Cash into Tequila: Teetotaler or anti-Mexican or just plain pleasure-hater? Liquor stores exist to provide a desirable product to the public. Check cashing stores exist to turn checks into spendable currency conveniently. Is it any surprise that they exist in reasonable proximity in the United States?

What I don't like is people who choose not to play by the store's rules. You are on someone else's private property - not yours. If you don't want to show your receipt, return your merchandise and don't shop there. Order your products online if you wish.

Businesses are private property. Just because you bought a piece of merchandise there doesn't give anybody the moral right to suspend the property owners right to have guests follow their rules (even if it is "the law").

It is not as if people at large are ignorant that they may be asked and yes even required to show their receipt. Just because some person thinks their rules trump those of the business they shopped at doesn't make it so.

Next time Boing Boing posts yet another of these outraged shopper stories about a person who thinks it is an imposition or an intrusion to provide their receipt I would suggest they ask: Whose rules apply - the business whose private property someone volunteered to enter or some scofflaw who thinks they can impose their personal set of rules on someone else's private property?

If you don't like a rule or you don't want to provide your receipt at a given business, don't do business there - please, it is just common sense.

Thane Eichenauer - Tempe, AZ