A young man named James, stopped at my place of business. He had an obvious physical disorder and stated that he had "turrets". He was trying to raise money for some special contest he was a part of in overcoming his disability and seemed to proud of his eminent accomplishment etc. He sold magazine subsciptions to both myself and a member of my staff.
We both placed substantial orders - came to over $150.00 between the two of us and neither of us everreceived our magazines that we ordered. He came here on June 20 and the checks were noticably cashed and cleared our accounts in September.
My gut originally wanted to say "no" however, his use of his disability truely guilted us into believing that this had to be true and we wanted to help him "win this contest". We were extremely gullable and from small town USA where people just wouldn't do such a thing! Right! We have learned our lesson.
Never Again!
Its really too bad, You always want to believe the best in people. I wont saythat I have become a cynical person, however, I will not be as trusting going forward.
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