Comments on: Selling Your Integrity For $3.00

By: Maryanne

Maryanne — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:16:44 +0000

Mark B: Yes, that would be novel. Especially maternity pants with pockets. And to the wusses: Why is it so bad to confront someone about taking the money? At least then Rusty’s wife doesn’t have to sit around feeling like a wuss.

By: alysha

alysha — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:20:47 +0000

oh man…glad to be out of there.
maybe you should get laundry in your apt. that would solve some of your problems, and maybe your wife wouldn’t hate doing it so much.
or maybe you should move to utah…

By: Lamonte

Lamonte — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:35:18 +0000

Boy this is a terribly pessimistic comment to be leaving on a Monday morning when I usually try to start the week off on a brighter note but expecting the highest of moral standards from your average citizen will often, if not always, disappoint you.

By: SAP

SAP — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:10:57 +0000

Leaving the money unattended was a bad idea, confronting the neighbor was an even worse one (unless you are moving sometime soon).

By: Bryce

Bryce — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:52:53 +0000

I got ya beat Russ:
At the Theater not only would people sneak in when it’s a $1-$1.50 admission, but they would do it on $.50 Tuesday. And for selling integrity for cheap, BYU students have everyone else beat into the ground on this one.
We have a $.50 discount at night for students who showed I.D.(otherwise how would we know who is a student and who isn’t) but not everyone decided it was a good thing to bring their I.D. with them. So they would sit and argue with us, holding up a very long line on a Friday night, about how they were a good and noble BYU student and wouldn’t lie to us all because they “sign an honor code”. Now, when ever I had I.D. that had to be carried, it never left my wallet, and I could never understand how it could magically disapear at the theater. Even if they weren’t lying, you didn’t bring it making you NOT a student, but they’d begin to whine and complain and DEMAND a discount anyway to which I always enjoyed hearing, and then boldly deneying them in return. Which was always a shock that I wouldn’t just give it to them anyway because they made a stink.
My favorites were the guy clearly in his 30s balding with 3 kids and his wife who slides over one BYU I.D., clearly from the 90’s with the words all rubbed off, expecting for his whole family to get $.50 off each, kids included.

By: Ahna

Ahna — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:09:02 +0000

I don’t understand why your wife confronted the neighbor. How could that possibly turn out well? Now she has an enemy, or at best, a very uncomfortable situation. Maybe I’m a total wuss like ESO, but I wouldn’t have confronted the neighbor either.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:08:12 +0000

I the Mormon church was growing at the rate of the Catholic church, perhaps we’d have time to build beautiful chapels.

By: danithew

danithew — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:41:16 +0000

Leaving unattended cash out in plain sight, anywhere in the world, is a mistake.

If you left out $3.00 in a temple locker room and it disappeared, I would not be surprised.

By: Susan M

Susan M — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:01:08 +0000

Dang Keri, I was getting all excited about that idea until I realized I have to do laundry for five people. Oh well.

By: Mark IV

Mark IV — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:59:48 +0000

I remember a talk by Sterling W. Sill where he talked about putting his money into a soda machine at a gas station, getting his drink, and then having the machine return his money. He put the money in his pocket and was walking back to his car with his cold drink when his conscience asked him if he was going to be a thief for a quarter. So he went in and paid the guy a quarter.

I guess that’s the difference between me and a GA. I figure I’m just getting even for all the times a machine has ripped me off.

By the way, Rusty, good call on changing the title from virtue to integrity. When I first saw the title, I thought it was about cut-rate prostitution.