Blog # 11

A time when the joke was on me was during track season. I was on my way home from a meet in Bowling Green when I got a call from my boyfriend, or at least the call was from his phone. His best friend had called me and told me that there was an accident. He said that they were playing basketball and someone had knocked him down and stepped on his leg and that therefore he had broken his leg. And me being as bright as I am believed him. Now I'm an hour and half away and freaking out on the bus ride home because I couldn't be with him. Then his best friend said he had to go and hung up on me. So there I am on the bus helpless talking to one of my close friends when a couple minutes later I get a call back telling me they were just kidding and I hung up my phone. So yeah the joke was on me and I haven't fallen for one since.

Blog #10

"The love of money is the root of all evil," the Bible tells us. Everyone desires to have money and lots of it. It influences human behavior because to have things that you want you have to have money to buy them. For example, if you want to buy a house you have to have money to put a down payment on it and then you have to gradually pay for it in monthly bills. If you don't have money to pay for the house, then the bank could foreclose on you and you could loose your house. Situations like greed is when the desire for money can be harmful.Being greedy shows that you only care about yourself and you can get in a lot of trouble depending on what you do. For example, gambling...enough said. When the desire seems normal or legitimate to me is when you take the money you earn, and instead of spending it on yourself, you donate it to a good cause like a local charity or church that is in need of it more than you are. You don't have to have a lot of money to have nice things.