{"id":7134,"date":"2015-04-23T20:42:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T01:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2015-04-23T21:11:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T02:11:47","slug":"grateful-for-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2015\/grateful-for-honesty.html","title":{"rendered":"Grateful for Honesty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found out today &#8211; after a few very stressful moments &#8211; that there are still HONEST people in this world! \ud83d\ude42 I left my little change purse sitting on the counter at a supermarket after paying for the stuff I had bought. (Hang in there for this story&#8230; It has a happy ending!) \u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u20ac<\/p>\n<p>(Now, that may not sound like a big deal, but change is valuable in this Mexican culture &#8211; you HAVE to have small change with you wherever you go, cuz it is used for everything! So I had quite a bit of coins in there, as well as a couple of bills &#8211; probably about the equivalent of about $30 in pesos, so not tons, but enough!)<\/p>\n<p>The problem was that I didn&#8217;t realize I had lost it until at least an hour later, when I went to pay for something at another store! Couldn&#8217;t find it, was madly searching through my purse, slightly mad at myself for being so careless! \ud83d\ude25 <\/p>\n<p>I almost didn&#8217;t even go back to the store to bother asking about it, because, I thought, why even waste the time? For sure it&#8217;s gone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER, I went back, found the cashier who attended me, and asked her if they had seen it. Her face lit up, and relief flooded over me! I had to describe the change purse, and tell them what $ was inside, but I got it back! So grateful for HONESTY tonight, and for people in our corrupt world who go against the flow and put that value into practice! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found out today &#8211; after a few very stressful moments &#8211; that there are still HONEST people in this world! \ud83d\ude42 I left my little change purse sitting on the counter at a supermarket after paying for the stuff I had bought. 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