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The Last Word
By MARK BROWN
Coping With Big Rip-Offs
JUNE 2020 PARKER COUNTY TODAY
Have you ever noticed that the world we
live in is full of people just dying to rip
you off?
It reminds me of a quote I heard once:
“Sincerity is everything, and once you learn to
fake that, the rest is easy.”
And in order to survive, everyone is trying
to protect their life with all kinds of new
equipment. Digital cameras all over their yards
and businesses. Cameras on their doorbells.
The only thing not protected is our brains.
We become victims by saying too much, sharing
too much. Our credit card numbers are
flying all over the world like birds. We have
devices in our homes that supposedly can
hear and save everything we say. As each day
goes by you have to admit things get more and
more complicated. It takes more and more of
our time just to halfway keep up.
Our world started with the 10 commandments,
and now we have the tax code. Now
we have a concentration camp of user names
and passwords, double and triple authentication
codes.
It seems like the world is full of people with
larceny in their hearts.
What Covid-19 has done, besides shut
down our world, is create a whole new field
for crooks to thrive in. Everything anyone
has done to try to help the C-19 victims, the
crooks have taken advantage of. Honestly you
really shouldn’t take phone calls, unless you
really know who is calling, you shouldn’t give
out any kind of personal information on insta/
google/tweet/face. You should live by these
rules in talking to anyone.
When in doubt shut up! And “less is best.”
Sometimes I feel like I am riding a tricycle in a
barrel of molasses, trying to get things done.
So, with that said, on to the positive side,
we live in a world where it is easy to be negative.
A guy I worked with once said: “If you
open up the hood of most people’s heads, you
find that they have two negative poles on their
battery.”
Let’s not be that way. It is a choice, of
course. Let’s change things. Get one of those
big black trash bags and put all the negative
in your house in that bag. Then put it out by
the curb with the other trash. And when the
sanitation truck comes, and they reach down
to pick up the bag it will probably float up into
their hands, and they will ask what’s in there?
You can say, “That’s all of the negative in our
house, we are getting rid of it!”
Laugh! Have a little fun! Think about this,
another gentleman I worked for said, “The key
to any success is helping people. If you can
figure out how to help people, you have it
made.”
So that is your homework for the month.
Spend time thinking how you can help someone.
You do that and I guarantee you will
have a great month.
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