Stop for a second.
Not everyone who lies looks like a liar…
It can get confusing, even tricky when navigating in strange territories or familiar ones when coming across a person that calls for you to say: I trust you, I don’t trust you, & I don’t know as introduced with selective side issues like “why should I trust you” & the grand finale of them all that visits: Your own story about how you trusted someone, got burned, followed with never again. Your war story supporting your pain? Do you remain damaged goods or get wiser for it?
You will see for yourself that it is no myth
THE TRUST PROCESS DESCRIBED ABOVE
It works & it is not 100% accurate but instead, a starting point to further explore the choices before you. Simplifying an experience gives it more clarity. People that are up to no good pleasantly complicate, making the edge shift to them as anything complicated is hiding something or has a secret agenda. Small print anyone? IRS codes? High-sounding 10 letter words? Pie in sky promises? Too good to be true?
PEOPLE WHO MEAN WELL ACT WELL
They stick to yes, no, I don’t know for their stance based in honesty & transparency & that is inviting to want to know more. It’s the getting started dialog that wears us down, gives us reason to concern, triggers our fears, guilt or curiosity making us part of the problem. Honest people struggle with having enough faith in honesty & whether it can pay the bills while the alternative behavior is a proven poison pill
THE FAST TALKER
You see this in videos, radio commercials, door to door contact, places that run on commissions & the core of fast talk can be warranted or a red flag to the passer-by. If legit, the poor guy is trying to do what billboards do in so many seconds & billboards are straight forward. A human doing this “foot in door” or “quick in a hurry” spiel makes for discomfort on everyone’s part. Exceptions do apply:
1. Some guy was proud of his sausage recipe & hawked to anyone to please try a bite for our sakes not his. He knew he had a winner. Now, how to reach you?
2. Colonel Sanders of KFC fame started out knocking on doors, pots, pans, plates, utensils at his side pitching the following: Let me in. I will cook you a chicken dinner for free. No muss, fuss or obligation. He wanted you to try his recipe
3. When people use “time is of the essence” stance, I question that because in sales, they use the “buy now” as a pressure closing tactic. What’s the hurry?
4. Had a guy come to the door with frozen steaks with a spiel that said the market didn’t buy the full order & he will discount steaks for me to close out the order
5. Had a guy selling beautiful, expensive looking women’s fur-collared coats out the back of a truck with a spiel that said: Normal $80 You right now, $25 (worth it)
6. Another selling watermelons saying nothing except try this & I did. Sweet as honey. I bought a whole melon. There wasn’t anything to talk about. Priced right
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?
When this was making the rounds, it was literally true. However, when it is true, how do you really know? Is it worth the risk? Even if you explore it to a satisfaction, it may not turn out or may, but usually not. Here is a true story for you:
I am at a Gas station in Nevada passing through the states when some poor looking guy, with a family asks to speak to me with humility & eyes to the ground. He says we have no gas & don’t think we can make it. I said no problem, fill your tank on me. He then says, please, we haven’t eaten for days. Can you help us out?
Then we go into a third stage where the guy shows me sealed, in the package, iPhone headphones, iPhone 16 (at the time), & iPhone accessories that I know cost hundreds of dollars. I hesitate & refuse but he goes for the pressure plea & takes out some heavy gold jewelry necklace & ring & says give me what you can. I reject & refused it all, but he insisted I take it for some small help. I reluctantly gave in.
EPILOG of ABOVE STORY
Out of the 6 packages of iPhone items, when opened, all were fake insides. On the gold, it was 18 karats looking & weighing more expensive than it was & on me filling his tank, he had a friend (undisclosed) who also filled his tank. Total cost $300. The gold was worth about $150-$200, the rest of the stuff a scam but real looking. How do you turn away desperate pleas? Its dicey & those that love God & man (me) decide in others favor. This guy & family? The Lord will give me justice. A short time afterwards, $300 came to me & a short time after that, $25k all not expected. You see I did the right thing with the wrong persons. God is not mocked
God says “no good deed goes unrewarded or devious deed unpunished” Amen
If this opened your eyes, share it with someone who needs clarity.
You never know who this could protect.
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