Don't get scammed. I just got a robocall, a term I recently learned, but a phenomenon I have become all too familiar with. At least 3 times a day I get such a call. The last one started out, "Hello, my name is Alice, and I am with account services. I'm calling about your credit card account." With that, I hung up.
On television daily, the news tells us of another victim of scamming. Someone called and got to them for a lot of money, promising a free vacation, or a tax refund, or some such nonsense. On another newscast, a tree trimmer came to the door, struck a deal to trim some trees, and asked for money up front. They then left with the money, having done no work on the trees.
It is hard for me to understand why people fall for such things, but because they keep doing it, the scammers keep multiplying. More every day.
People used to be honest. My dad taught me to give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Tell the truth, my mother told me. Don't lie.
My teachers at Benton Elementary told us students to never cheat. "Stop looking at someone else's work," Mrs Whitaker said.
I have a friend who failed a term paper while attending Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas because the instructor said it appeared to be a copy of another student's work. Therefore not honest and not passing, either.
It is a thing as old as the earth, I guess. People still lie. According to an article in National Geographic magazine recently, everybody lies. I suspect that is an exaggeration. The writer of the article cited a neurological study that proved his point.
I try to be honest with people. I am a writer of books and articles. I must tell the truth or nobody will read my stuff. My mother used to say "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you read." She may have been right, who knows? But the thing is, I believe what I write is the truth, and I hope you do too. So I will keep on writing and ignore those studies about lying. I know I'm not doing it.
(note: you can read Gene's daily postings at ggroner.blogspot.com and see his books for sale at https://www.amazon.com/author/genegroner).
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