I have an Office Depot Rewards account. On February 23rd I got this card in the mail with two coupon cards. The one at the top of the card was missing, punched out of the card. This is the one that offered a 15% off your purchase, according to Office Depot when I called and it was good until March 31. They gave me a number to use for my next purchase and when I went to use it this week, I was told that it had expired on February 23rd!
Every now and then you read about the cripple whose wheel chair got stolen, so this is just a minute thing and certainly not meant as a comparison but it just shows the depths that people will stoop to take something that does not belong to them. It’s sort of like that guy who ran into my bumper. Oh, she’ll probably not even notice that little scrape. She won’t care about a discount coupon. What the hey.
In today’s Post there is a Letter to the Editor about a guy who left his wallet with $200 bucks in it at Publix. He called about it when he got home; it was there and he went back to retrieve it and to his amazement, all the money was still there. He gave the customer $100 for being honest and turning it in. He rewarded someone who should have turned it in anyway; it was not his! A “thank you” should have sufficed although his gesture was certainly generous. He wanted to reward someone with integrity. Why is having a conscience not the norm anymore? We all know what is right and what is wrong but seem to think that it is perfectly alright to take something that does not belong to us.
But to get back to the coupon thought…are times that tough that coupons now are being stolen? It almost wants to make you laugh. The “me” mentality is at every level of society, from Bernie and his $50 billion pyramid heist to a mail sorter with a lousy 15% off card. Hope he puts it to good use by buying Ethics 101 for Dummies or possibly a copy of the Ten Commandments. Right.
