Honesty Lesson

One week ago Reggie Damone, a McDonald's employee and on food stamps himself, picked up an envelope he found in the street, looking for a scrap of paper to jot down a phone number.

Inside the envelope was a check for $185,000. He took the check to a bank and asked them to return it to its owner.

If only the world had more like him.

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A LESSON IN HONESTY

This story is from quite a few years ago, when people still bought most of their meat from the local butcher.

I had gone to the shop with my grandmother, and it was late in the day, just a few minutes before the shopkeeper would normally close up. She told the butcher she needed a lamb roast, so he pulled the last one out of the glass case, weighed it, and told her, "That'll be $13.45, please."

"Oh dear," said my grandma, "that's too small. Do you have a larger one?"

The butcher took the roast off the scale and went into the back room. We could hear him moving some things about, and after a minute or two he came back with what looked suspiciously like the exact same roast.

"This one should be better," he said, "it's $15.20."

I was just about to speak up and say something when my grandmother looked down at me, winked, and said to the butcher, "Thank you. That's perfect. I'll take both of them."

[from Andychap's The_Funnies]

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WONDER for YOUR WEEK: How many of us know that honesty in little things is not such a little thing?

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