Posted on 06/24/2013 7:17:53 AM PDT by Doc Savage
I frequently meet friends at Panera in the morning. For the past five years, almost every morning, a minister at a local church walks in. He always carries a large drink cup that he hides in his pant's pocket or down at his side. He grabs a USA Today from the stand near the door, moves to a table and sits down.
He reads the paper for a minute or two to establish he's in the building, then walks over to the iced tea dispenser and fills it up. Then he takes six or seven pieces of lemon and squeezes them in. He returns to the table, drinks and reads for a few more minutes, refills, and then walks out with the paper and his cup. Next day is a repeat.
I spoke the manager several years ago but she was totally disinterested. I guess they just accept the loss. My friends and I, however, pay every morning for our drinks and would never steal a newspaper.
What's happening to America when ministers are stealing? Have we sunk this low?
The manager is not “disinterested.” She is uninterested.
Anyone can call themselves a minister.
God knows who the real ones are.
It’s not at all unusual for local businesses to offer freebies to cops on the beat. The businesses like the visual for the benefit of potential burglars.
Not too long ago my husband and I were having dinner at a family type restaurant, the kind where a container on the table holds little tubs of jellies, jams and honey.
At the table next to us sat a man and his twenty something daughter. The young woman emptied the container of condiments into her purse and as she did so her father admonished her for stealing. Her reply? “Dad, I’m poor, and they are rich. They owe me.” Dad tried to tell her that did not entitle her to steal but she was having none of it.
God sees what the minister is doing. Let Him handle it.
I have noticed that people who do things like this are a combination of lit dynamite and porcupine quills when they are confronted. They have thoroughly justified it in their own minds, based on post-modern principles of relative truth. They will react with an explosion of profanity, get in your face, and condemn you for your intrusion, casting aspersions on your ancestry, intelligence, appearance and life choices. Be prepared.
Honest cops shouldn’t accept all the gifts and bribes that the retail people offer them, I used to raise cain in restaurants when I saw this where the cops just received their food and take out for free, I even got to the point of letting the cops know what I thought of it.
This is corruption and like the broken window syndrome, it is rust that has no good, only bad comes from it.
You just described a situation where one merchant gets a unionized government cop walking in, altering his beat, in exchange for 10 or 20 dollars worth of goods, while the honest merchant doesn’t.
On day one, someone less scrupulous might say that no real harm was done, the cop only sold out for one day, and the merchant might not have been thinking of it as a bribe, but this can, and has, become part of the cop system, and involves vast amounts of money around the nation, and it shapes what cops do, and where they do it at, and it creates a tit for tat (compensation) mentality.
Is there an update? Did you take up any of the suggestions?
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