Of cheats and generosity.

A very small snippet of what may be right and wrong with the world today explained through blatant consumerism:

Last Sunday, I wake up with the usual thought of picking up the Sunday supplement to read with a cup of coffee and there I saw on the newspaper, a sachet of Vivel shampoo – the new range by ITC. Well, that’s a freebee! (I think we threw the paper into our recycle stack though, shampoo et all).

Then, we go over to our friend’s house for lunch and conversation leads to why there’s a white blank rectangle on their Sunday supplements. Turns out the news paper guy has nicked the shampoo sachet before delivering them! Ouch! Now this is approximately a 300 home apartment complex which equals 300 stolen sachets that the newspaper dealer may be selling to the shop around the corner for a profit, unless Rapunzel lives with him.

Turn to Monday morning in our house and guess what? another Sunday supplement is delivered to us! Looks like the dealer had a few extra newspapers and wanted us to have the sachets.

Now that’s generous. All’s well with the world again (for the next 5 mins).