Laws Rule

my investigative reporting assigment: go to a restaurant of my choice and ask to see the latest health inspection report. take notes and write up a one-page memo. my restaurant of choice: panda express on figueroa. i entered the establishment and proceeded to the cashier. i would like to see your latest public health inspection report please, i said to the woman behind the counter. oh, um. we don't have any, she replied. you don't have your public health inspection report? is there a manager i can talk with? i asked back. hold on, she said. another woman approached me. what do you need? she asked. i'd like to look at your latest public health inspection report, i said. we don't let people see that, she said. well, by law you are obligated to present it upon request, i returned. i've worked here for five years and we've never done anything like that. i've never heard of that, she said. look, i'm not trying to get you in trouble. i simply want to examine your health inspection report, a right i am afforded by law, i said. well, you can call the corporate office and talk to them about it, she shot back. all i need to do is look at it for five minutes. i'll look at it and give it right back. no one will even know you gave it to me, i replied. sigh. hold on. and she retrieved it for me. ha. i win. my powers of persuasion grow with every passing day.