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Re: Yippie or Taking unfair advantage of a situation
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: Yippie or Taking unfair advantage of a situation
- From: Gerry Skau <gerry at ans_net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:03:36 +0000 (GMT)
- In-Reply-To: <199909171948.PAA16952 at actwin_com>
< Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:43:44 -0400
< From: "Peter G. Aitken" <peter at pgacon_com>
< Subject: Re: Yippie or Taking unfair advantage of a situation
<
< James Purchase chided Morgan Gerek for boasting about getting a good
< deal
<on
< misidentified plants.
<
< I agree with James on this one. Just because the error was the clerk's
< fault
< does not absolve a person from their responsibility to treat others
< honestly. Suppose, for example, you were paying for your purchases with
< cash
< and notice that you were mistakenly given $10 too much in change. Is it
< OK
< to keep the money? I don't think so!
<
< Peter G. Aitken
Just for the record-this in another one we beat to death not too long ago.
If you've robbed a bank, beaten up an old lady, or scammed someone out of
an aquatic plant, I dpn't want to hear about it, keep it off the list.
Unless the Amazon Sword you scammed someone out of evolved into a frog on
the way home.
Gerry Skau
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
-Oscar Wilde