From the archive

Your principles end where the discount begins

You have very firm convictions. As long as they don't cost you anything. In conversation, you're against corruption, exploitation, and every other kind of nastiness. In the comments, you're uncompromising. But then someone you know offers to sort things out through a contact, and suddenly life turns out to be more complicated than black and white. Especially when you're the one who needs to skip the queue.