HONESTY

One of my best mates came to Leechpool Thursday. Hadn't seen him for a while so it was great to catch up on news. I won't mention his name. He doesn't read this blog anyway so I can write freely. On arrival he said that he had hurt his back loading bags of coal into the back of his car. He buys them from a petrol filling station. He then said that what he likes to do is go in and pay for two bags and then go outside and if he parks the car the right way round he can chuck on a few extra bags without them knowing. I said what about the security cameras and he said that he had thought of that and no-one would know how many bags he had paid for in the shop.

I must confess to slight shock and discomfort at being told this. I rather wish that he hadn't told me. We were all horrified by the looting and rioting last August. People helping themselves once a shop window had been broken and I can't help condemning this act by a friend of mine who was apparently proud enough of his dishonesty to sort of boast about it to me as though I might admire him for it.

I obviously still class him as my friend and he has many qualities but there was something about the episode that I found a little distasteful.