Comments on: Finding Honesty http://spittingllamas.com/2004/05/12/finding-honesty/ To the hilt! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:26:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mark http://spittingllamas.com/2004/05/12/finding-honesty/#comment-1645 Mark Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:36:57 +0000 http://spittingllamas.com/?p=732#comment-1645 I had a similar situation just today. I drove to my local Wendy's for lunch and order the #6. Yummm...! Anyhow, I handed the lady a $10. She must not have been paying attention because she never put the $10 in the register, but left it in her hand. Then she started counting out the change. She handed me back my change, with the $10 bill. So she handed me back $14+. I noticed it and told her. She was embarassed but then said, "you could have driven away with a bag of food and $4 extra bucks." And I said, "Yeah, I could have." Langston Hughes once said the only way you can be prepared to face the bit temptations in life and do the right thing, is if you practice first by facing the small temptations first and do the right thing. That $4 was a little thing. But I'm not going to let $4 weaken me for when I'm tempted on a larger scale. I had a similar situation just today. I drove to my local Wendy’s for lunch and order the #6. Yummm…! Anyhow, I handed the lady a $10. She must not have been paying attention because she never put the $10 in the register, but left it in her hand. Then she started counting out the change.

She handed me back my change, with the $10 bill. So she handed me back $14+. I noticed it and told her. She was embarassed but then said, “you could have driven away with a bag of food and $4 extra bucks.” And I said, “Yeah, I could have.”

Langston Hughes once said the only way you can be prepared to face the bit temptations in life and do the right thing, is if you practice first by facing the small temptations first and do the right thing. That $4 was a little thing. But I’m not going to let $4 weaken me for when I’m tempted on a larger scale.

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