At the magazine shop I bought a 99 cent bag of chips like I always do. As I'm making small-talk with the clerk, I look down into the take-a-penny tray, and there's three quarters laying in there. So Without hesitating, I grab the three quarters and say, 'I'm taking these!" Cause I'm a nice dude, I tip the clerk 25 cents. I walk out of the joint 50 cents richer than I was before.
I share my new found good fortune with some co-workers, who promptly begin to harass me for my ethical choice, which was, to take 75 cents from the take-a-penny tray. What, I ask you, is so wrong about taking money from a tray that is actually designed to give away money?
Besides this, as I mentioned, I always buy a bag of 99 cent chips...like nearly every day. What do I do with the penny I get back? I put it in the goddamn leave-a-penny tray! I've been doing this for near three years now...that's 364 x 3 = 1092 pennies. Subtract say, 100 for weekends and days when I got a free doughnut or something and didn't buy one, then multiply by 3 years, and subtract from 1092. That puts us at 792 pennies I've left in that tray over the course of the last three years. I'VE LEFT 7 DOLLARS AND 92 CENTS IN THAT DAMN TRAY, AND I'M BEING HARASSED BECAUSE I TAKE 50 CENTS? WHO THE FUCK HAS THE REST OF THE 7 DOLLARS AND 42 CENTS I LEFT THERE!!??
Obviously, somebody's ethics are screwed up, and I think I'm not going to give to that leave-a-penny tray any more.
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