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I'm glad you're with us on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you learning ways to save

more and spend less and don't let anyone ever rip you off.

Speaking of rip offs, today's Clark Rage's moment involves a new surcharge that's appearing

at more and more restaurants.

I need to tell you how the gotcha works and wait, I'm not done with gotchas coming up

a half hour from now.

If this spring or this summer, you're going to rent a car.

If you don't rent cars frequently, you can have your wallet cleaned out at the car rental

counter and most often you don't even realize it's happened to you return your rental car.

I'm going to tell you how the game has played, how to protect your wallet in just a half

hour.

Right now I'd like to give you some positive news and that is, by the way, I think I forgot

to give our web address, Clark.com.

When you have a question for me, Clark.com slash ask, there is a joke here at the studio

if the thermostat that controls the temperature in here is a fake one.

You go to adjust it and you think you're going to have it get hotter or cooler.

But the belief is, if it's freezing, it's going to stay freezing, if it's boiling hot,

it's going to stay boiling hot.

I actually don't believe it.

I think it's an actual real working thermostat.

But it'd be easy to believe that because of the story I shared with you about hotels

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