Small print, we all love reading it, don't we? We’re into buying
something online, but at the last moment there’s a little box saying that ‘Terms
and conditions’ apply- so do we accept? Yes. Of course we do accept them, stop
wasting my time, I want to buy that thing. We tick the box, because checking
out every ‘Terms and conditions’ document would fill our days with trying to
understand all sorts of legal gobbledegook (understandable only to lawyers, accountants
and other Higher Beings), and nothing else would get done. So we tick the box
for Yes, and hope that the people in charge have our best interests at heart.
Which they do, of course. Every time. Of course.
But sometimes, not reading the small print can get you into
trouble. So allow me to share a true story that might serve as a kind of
warning about what can go wrong...
