My experience with an honest person

Today I was taking a cab home from an event, and I paid with a $20 bill. I got my change back, got out of the cab, and was 15 feet away when I heard “Sir! Sir!, you gave me too much!”. I turned around and saw the cab driver holding up 2 $20 bills. I thanked him extensively and took the extra bill.

While walking home I was wavering between “darn, I should have given him a couple more bucks in tip as thanks” and “honesty shouldn’t be repaid with money– he did what he felt was right and I will do the same in the future”. I remember in the book Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the main character (Laura’s husband as a boy, I forget his name) found someone’s wallet with the equivalent of thousands of dollars in it, and the guy gave him enough money as thanks to buy — if I remember correctly — 2 oxen.

2 Responses to “My experience with an honest person”


  1. 1 josh

    wow. The price of cabs in your town always surprises me — I’m used to a minimum $40 cab ride for a trip to the airport here. I have to say, I last time I took a cab there, I would not have expected the driver to give me back an extra twenty

  2. 2 feelexit

    hi, sorry to post unrelated question here. I am eidting lyceum, got stuck on profile.php file.

    quesiton about update_user_option function in profile_update.php page

    function update_user_option( $user_id, $option_name, $newvalue, $global =
    false ) {
    global $wpdb;
    if ( !$global )
    $option_name = $wpdb->prefix . $option_name;
    echo $newvalue ; // I add this line to see what value it is.
    return update_usermeta( $user_id, $option_name, $newvalue );
    }

    we use this function to edit user profile. $newvalue is boolean type ,
    value is false, I use echo to print it out.
    then next line called update_usermeta, it passed $newvalue in. but when i
    use echo in

    function update_usermeta($user_id, $meta_key, $meta_value )

    $meta_value became array, got so confused here. how this data type changes ?

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