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WWYD: Cheat With Octane?
In January of this year, I finally bought a "new to me" new car. For three years I had driven my grandmother's '89 Buick Century, tape over all of the…
WWYD: Accept Free Trip without Any Intent to Buy
"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor." -- C. S. Forester Day after day, the Waterwood, Texas infomercial seems to run in continuous loop on one of the televisions…
WWYD: Have Windfall, Will Share… But How?
So I'm having a peaceful Saturday, and a friend, let's call her Peitho, calls me up to tell me that Southwest is having a special on Las Vegas flights through…
WWYD: Errors on the Dining Bill
When you go out for dinner do you review the details when the server brings the check or do you assume it is right? Do you do a quick "ballpark…
WWYD: Hand Out Money on the Street?
This has always been a really tough one for me: I'm walking down the street, minding my own business, and someone (usually looking really roughed up) asks for money. It's…
WWYD: Paying Children for Good Grades
"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours." -- Orison Swett Marden In this week's What Would…
WWYD: Use a Coupon on a First Date?
Many who work in a high-rise building have to put up with a strange thing in elevators called the Captivate screen. It's essentially a mini-monitor that posts short news clips,…
WWYD: Amend or Ignore?
We're getting closer and closer to the 2007 tax deadline. As I was doing my own tax return I got to thinking -- what sort of change would I need…
WWYD: Cheating on Your Taxes?
Tax cheats are doing real damage to the government's finances, with about $300 billion in missing taxes each year, according to the Associated Press. That money alone would balance our…
WWYD: The Price of a Mistreated Life
In this week's What Would You Do series, we ask how you would compensate a person for a life incorrectly spent in prison. Recently on NPR, Kathy Lohr interviewed two…