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Bill owns a company that manufactures and installs Magic Wand Car Wash Systems. These are complete systems, including the money changer and money taking machines. Bill's company installed a car wash system in Frederick, Md
The problem started when the new owner complained to Bill that he was losing significant amounts of money from his coin machines each week. He went as far as to accuse Bill's employees of having a key to the boxes and ripping him off. Bill just couldn't believe that his people would do that, so they set up a camera to catch the thief in action. Well, they did catch him on film!
Also, they found that it wasn't just one bird - there were several working together. Once they identified and tracked the thieves, they found over $4000 in quarters on the roof of the car wash and more under a nearby tree.
Bill owns a company that manufactures and installs Magic Wand Car Wash Systems. These are complete systems, including the money changer and money taking machines. Bill's company installed a car wash system in Frederick, Md
The problem started when the new owner complained to Bill that he was losing significant amounts of money from his coin machines each week. He went as far as to accuse Bill's employees of having a key to the boxes and ripping him off. Bill just couldn't believe that his people would do that, so they set up a camera to catch the thief in action. Well, they did catch him on film!
Also, they found that it wasn't just one bird - there were several working together. Once they identified and tracked the thieves, they found over $4000 in quarters on the roof of the car wash and more under a nearby tree. ----------------------------------------------------------
Things frequently aren’t what they appear to be. The new owner had a problem – his income was being regularly stolen, so he leapt to the most obvious conclusion and blamed the installer.
What did not happen is significant. The installer did not react in kind. He was able to step back, look at the broader picture, and come up with a plan to identify the culprits. And because of his intuitive approach to problem solving, we are all enjoying an amusing story with backup photos.
There’s a good lesson here about defusing antagonism. Refusing to react is always an option.
Learning about God’s law of infinite love has helped me to step back from the brink of anger more than once. Consistently turning from aggravation ratchets down the emotional turmoil. So this universal law of Love that relates us all constructively to each other also guides us safely away from hostility as well.
In this case, into a place where Bill and the owner could laugh together as friends.
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Understand this, my beloved brethren,
let every man be quick to hear (a ready listener),
slow to speak,
slow to take offense
and slow to get angry.
Amplified Bible
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Amplified Bible
The Christian Scientist cherishes no resentment;
he knows that that would harm him
more than all the malice of his foes.
Mary Baker Eddy
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