The cheque's in the post
How could it have slipped my mind?
Today's scenario assumes that you bought a computer online. It's arrived, but you haven't paid for it because you forgot to send a cheque. What do you do? Say nothing or phone the company and tell them the cheque is on its way?
I'd do the latter, although I know of more than one person who'd do the former and then wriggle like hell to avoid people coming to repossess said computer. These are also the sort of people who believe that once something is in their possession, regardless of the means by which they acquired it, it's inalienably theirs.
The discussion talks about what most people would do as a basis for deciding what your course of action might be, but I merely thought what I'd do when I considered the situation. It didn't even cross my mind to consider what the general custom might supposedly be.
Today's scenario assumes that you bought a computer online. It's arrived, but you haven't paid for it because you forgot to send a cheque. What do you do? Say nothing or phone the company and tell them the cheque is on its way?
I'd do the latter, although I know of more than one person who'd do the former and then wriggle like hell to avoid people coming to repossess said computer. These are also the sort of people who believe that once something is in their possession, regardless of the means by which they acquired it, it's inalienably theirs.
The discussion talks about what most people would do as a basis for deciding what your course of action might be, but I merely thought what I'd do when I considered the situation. It didn't even cross my mind to consider what the general custom might supposedly be.
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