Does honesty pay? I do not remember ever cheating anyone out of anything. If I have it was without knowing. I remember one time I was selling a pickup truck and I wanted $2,000 for the truck. The young fellow came to look at, and drive the vehicle. I asked $2,500 so I could come down and make the buyer feel as if they got a good deal. The young man drove the truck and he spoke to his mother, who was driving their vehicle, and he came to me and said he would take it, without asking me to reduce the price. I then told him I would take $2,000 for the truck. Needless to say that made him happy. I got my price and he got a truck.
I could have taken the $2,500 for the truck and not cheated the young man, but I would have felt bad about taking advantage of him.
I have even received and extra $20.00 bill at the teller machine two times at the bank I use, and both times I have returned the $20.00, both times they looked at me like I was some kind of odd ball, but they did say thank you.
I gave you all that history as a prelude to this soon to be story of, possibly being over honest. I went to the chicken place and bought some stuff. I should have received $11.00 and change. When I took the time later to put the paper money in my money clip, I found I had three $5 and one $1. I should have had two $5s and one $1. I received $5.00 to much.
Today I took the $5.00 dollar bill back and told the lady what had happen. I gave her the $5.00 and she looked at me like I was odd and said, “Ok”. I would have liked to have received a smile and a thank you.
And now, things that irritate me! You may be correct, possibly most things irritate me, but there are things that especially have an irritating value. I am still getting multiple emails daily from various people’s names and the subjects are political. I have not read any of these, and I will not read any of them. I will say this, if I were to read one of them and found that it was from some politician that I would have voted for, I would no longer vote for them.
Also, I have the TV on when I get up and keep it on during my coffee and sitting around time usually one to one and a half hours. They have the same political commercials time and time again. If these commercials were about someone I would have voted for, I would no longer vote for them.
They are supposed to finish up here at the Homestead today. The kitchen sink has a faucet but the spray nozzle is not installed. It has a garbage disposal which is connected to the drain, the other side of the sink is not connected to a drain. The cabinets are all installed, there is a couple things that need to be addressed on the cabinets. The light over the sink has not been installed yet. The dish washer has not yet been returned.
We will be very happy when they finish and remove all their tools and supplies from the garage, so we can put my first wife’s items back into the house. I, along with our cats, would like to see the garage back to its normal congested, but not massively congested, condition.
Yes we are supposed to get more rain today, most of the area is under flash flood warnings.
May your Friday be lovely and your weekend safe!
Irritated and willing to tell you about it; Don Ford
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