Funny stories!

Tree,
I was concerned about that too – that’s why I was very specific about the location and nature of the damage in both notes. I meant to take pictures with my cell phone but both times I was so wound up over the incident that I forgot to do it.

There is far to little honesty in this world, its why we have goods made in China that now have store stickers over the part of the label that tells you where its made. I have noticed this as a growing trend in the past 6 months. I find a product I am interested in, flip the tag over to read the Made in … and there is a store label over it. Fortunately for me I have a handy list of barcodes and where they are made by bar code #.

It is sad how people are surprised to see honesty, isn’t it? Not too long ago I bought two gallons of milk with my groceries and didn’t notice until I got home and looked at the receipt again (for my price book) that I’d only been charged for one. Later in the day I returned to the store, went through the line (same cashier), explained what had happened, and said I needed to pay for the second gallon. The clerk was flabbergasted! She said this was the first time she’d ever seen anyone do this. I explained, maybe, but I certainly wasn’t going to knowingly STEAL it! She looked at me even more puzzled and said, “But no one would know!” I said, “God knows.” So maybe she thinks I’m a complete weirdo. But maybe in spite of that I was able to be a good Christian example if only in that tiny thing.

I’ll never forget when our oldest was little (maybe 4 or 5) we somehow got out of Target without paying for the DVD she was holding. I noticed as we were getting in the car and walked right back in to the service desk. I explained we had this DVD that didn’t get scanned and we needed to pay for it. I was trying to set a good example for my daughter and the lovely Target employee was shocked we came back in (and said so) and was actually reluctant to ring it up!