I mean, "double down every single time" feels like a bit much. Most companies just ignore stuff until it blows over. Maybe we're giving them too much credit for having a real reaction.

Oh, I feel that. I once stayed somewhere where the "complimentary breakfast" was just a sad basket of wrapped crackers. The morning a bus full of German tourists pulled in, they magically produced a whole buffet with sausages and yogurt. Guess my solo traveler money wasn't good enough for the good stuff!

Honestly that's a nice moment but maybe we're overthinking it. The kid was seven, he probably just wanted to look at Wolverine's claws. Sometimes a dad is just being a dad, not making a big statement about comic book culture.

Yeah, "nobody was sure what any bank would do next" really sums it up. We had a client in a similar spot around then, trying to buy before selling their old condo. The hard part wasn't explaining the loan, it was finding a lender who would actually commit to the terms without changing them at the last second.

Yeah, it's more like 300 pages, not 500. But I get what you mean about missing a character's good side until someone points it out. Happened to me with a different book too.