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A customer had poop on her pants. She told me she slipped in the poop because we didn’t pick it up. We cleaned her up and then watched the camera footage, where we saw her dog poop, then she sat in it because she forgot and was putting clothes on her dog. Poop happens but come on! — Jennifer Baird, Earthwise Pet, Corpus Christi, TX

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Editor’s note: Pet Peeves are contributed by members of the PETS+ Brain Squad and featured anonymously here.

As a small business with no support staff, the answering machine has specific information to direct clients. So it’s frustrating when people don’t listen to it and do the opposite of what is needed.

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FRUGALITY IS GENERALLY considered a positive quality. The philosopher Aristotle as well as the Stoics regarded it as a moral virtue, similar to temperance and prudence. Religious traditions hold up frugality as a sign of humility, self-control and gratitude — the opposite of greed and wastefulness. In economics and business management, well … it gets a bit tricky.

As t...