Gimme a friggin' break.

One of the things that bugs me about the Restaurant.com website is the "self managed" certificate status. Why they can't simply add an automatic status update is beyond me. I have pages of unused certificates and I always forget which ones are used. Some of them are multiples from the same restaurants I like to visit.

Sometimes I'm heading to a place that I know I've used certs before, but I don't know which ones. So I print several that I know have some valid ones and head to the restaurant. Once, when paying the bill, the server came back with the certificate and said that it had been used. No problem, I just pulled out another one and said try this one! They had no problem with it and it worked fine. If the certificates are validated (used) they are no good anymore, it's as simple as that.

At the same time, I have no problem using a certificate that was never validated. If they fail to call in and validate it, it's certainly fair game to use it again. It's not my fault if they forgot or didn't care too. And as I explained, most of the time I don't know if I've used it before or not.