Perception! To be or not to be? That is the question! Several years ago, my husband and I received a Hastings gift card for Christmas. Movie buffs to the core, we couldn’t wait to spend our loot and bring home the perfect DVD. We rushed over to Hastings and browsed every new title in the store.
Exasperated with their overpriced merchandise, we decided to search the previously-viewed DVDs instead. Eureka! We hit the jackpot and were ecstatic. Little red and white signs were placed neatly above each row of flicks and read $2.50 each. We scurried up and down the aisles, filling our arms to the full, as we pulled movie after movie after movie off of the shelves. We had died, and gone to cinema heaven!
We carefully balanced our heaps, as we threaded our way to the register. Passing by one of those little red and white signs that read $2.50 each, I decided to take one last look. Yep, it was the exact price! Well, that is, for anyone who wanted to “rent” one of those fine films for the evening. Objectivity would have told us that there was no such thing as a free lunch, and that if it sounded too good to be true, then it probably was.
Yep… perception is in the eye of the beholder.
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