A Story

A neighbor who is also retired comes by about once a week and we chat. Today he told me an interesting story I thought that I should share with others. He said when he was a child living in a small town in the south he would go to a small store owned by an old Chinese almost every day to purchase a soda, candy or something. He had had some learning problems at that age. One day the grocer told him that he would teach him to count. So one day when he came in the grocer gave him $40.00. The grocer told him that that was how much he had taken from him because he did not know how to count the change. He said that the pennies added up and he had lost a lot because he did not know how to count. My neighbor learned to count and has become rather successful.

How many instances of a lack of knowledge has cost us? That is why I always say that we should learn as much as we can about as much as we can because we never know when we will need it.

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