Today’s Thought: Don’t Get Conned

When my daughters were young I’d tell them bedtime stories every night. They looked forward to the stories. When I was too tired or not in the right mood to tell them a story, they’d beg. What dad can resist that kind of pressures, right? The stories were purely fictional but my daughters listened to them as if they were real and happening in real time. That time was a wonderful age of innocence for them.. Fast forward to today. Some people can tell complete fabrications and people believe them. That’s what conmen do. They gain our confidence and then we believe what they are saying. A good way to test a conman is to ask him/her to show proof. They’ll usually weave a twisted tale to take your mind off the subject and you won’t realize they never answered your question until you’ve been swindled.