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Today I bought a new dress shirt, a new tie, and a new pair of wing tips for a job interview tomorrow. At the store where I bought the shirt and tie, I used a $50 gift card I got for by birthday. The salesperson rang up the items, swiped the cards, but then cancelled the sale because it didn't go through right. So I had to call the gift-card company and have them put the $50 back on so the sale could be rung up again. We needed the salesperson, his manager, the gift-card customer service rep, and his manager to make everything right. I had to wait about ten minutes, but the gift card was used and the sale was closed.

Sometimes people need help. And sometimes people need to work as a team to get a job done right. There have been times when I needed help.

When I got home, I opened up the shirt package, took out all the pins and tags, and put the shirt on a hanger. Then I removed the label from the back of the tie, and put the shoes next to closet for tomorrow morning. Usually when I buy something I'll leave it in the bag until I stumble across it much later. That's a non-verbal way of saying, "I really don't feel worthy of this." I once read that a good exercise for feeling better about yourself is to take photos and put them in a album. It seemed that the two had no connection, but consider: photos in a pile stuffed in a drawer indicates low regard for one's memories, while photos displayed in an album show that memories matter.