Man Repays £5 Debt 39 Years Later
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Some people do feel a lot of anxiety about debts. Let me tell you a little story...
My next door neighbor (a lady in her 60s who lives alone), had an accident last year and ended up in hospital, so I payed her window cleaner when he came around that weekend.
When she heard of my deed from one of her visiting relatives, this debt to me played on her mind tremendously, resulting in her discharging herself from hospital prematurely so she could settle the debt in person.
Money affects people in strange ways.
Cheapskate.
Taking inflation into account, that's barely a 3.5% annual interest rate on the loan.
Well, it's not just anxiety about debt, you know....it's also a matter of character for some of us. It's like saying "Thank You" and "Yessir/ma'am."
Take this situation that recently happened to me. I found a DJ out West whose music I found particularly journeysome and intuitive. Well, I started downloading his podcasts from his website, but I realized I was d/loading his music - true that he made available publicly - but I'd not said "Thank You" to him.
So, I emailed him a couple of weeks ago, after d/loading something like 12 of his sets. Well, abt. that same time, I sprained my ankle. He emailed me back and thanked me for thanking him, asked about me, etc, so I wrote him a note about myself and I noted that I was listening to his music when I received the email, while I recovered from my ankle injury.
He's been kind enough in 2 weeks to send me 4 sets of his music - music that he doesn't post at his website at all - at no charge, just to keep me entertained. We've also exchanged some personal information about each other, even our pets (he has a new puppy named Pee Wee) and we've basically made fast internet friends. He's given me permission to share the d/l links he sends me with whomever I want as a means of promoting his work, yet he has never said that he'll only send me his work if I do such and such. He's just that kind of of guy. Moral of the story...Saying "thank you," like paying a belated debt can also lead one to reap unexpected benefits - just for being nice. I really enjoy listening to his work...every set is a journey (pay attention to the lyrics, or, as in the case of one set of Balearic style he sent me - the cascading effect of the music as it flows (such is the nature of Balearic), and he's taking the listener on a journey. Some of his work includes mixes of songs I've not heard in quite sometime- and, as I asked him about that, he told me some of his early experiences were at venues that I too attended, which was quite the surprise to us both. Thus, he and I could both tell you where we were, with whom, and exactly where on the floor when we danced or chilled out to that particular song. That's really neat - and we "met" and made friends simply because I stopped to say "Thank You."
Take this situation that recently happened to me. I found a DJ out West whose music I found particularly journeysome and intuitive. Well, I started downloading his podcasts from his website, but I realized I was d/loading his music - true that he made available publicly - but I'd not said "Thank You" to him.
So, I emailed him a couple of weeks ago, after d/loading something like 12 of his sets. Well, abt. that same time, I sprained my ankle. He emailed me back and thanked me for thanking him, asked about me, etc, so I wrote him a note about myself and I noted that I was listening to his music when I received the email, while I recovered from my ankle injury.
He's been kind enough in 2 weeks to send me 4 sets of his music - music that he doesn't post at his website at all - at no charge, just to keep me entertained. We've also exchanged some personal information about each other, even our pets (he has a new puppy named Pee Wee) and we've basically made fast internet friends. He's given me permission to share the d/l links he sends me with whomever I want as a means of promoting his work, yet he has never said that he'll only send me his work if I do such and such. He's just that kind of of guy. Moral of the story...Saying "thank you," like paying a belated debt can also lead one to reap unexpected benefits - just for being nice. I really enjoy listening to his work...every set is a journey (pay attention to the lyrics, or, as in the case of one set of Balearic style he sent me - the cascading effect of the music as it flows (such is the nature of Balearic), and he's taking the listener on a journey. Some of his work includes mixes of songs I've not heard in quite sometime- and, as I asked him about that, he told me some of his early experiences were at venues that I too attended, which was quite the surprise to us both. Thus, he and I could both tell you where we were, with whom, and exactly where on the floor when we danced or chilled out to that particular song. That's really neat - and we "met" and made friends simply because I stopped to say "Thank You."