Recently a celebrity had a locksmith come out to her home because she was locked out. When the locksmith got there, he went to work trying to open up the lock. In the middle of this service she, realizing that she could get in a window, told the locksmith that she no longer needed the service. At this point he asked for the $39.00 service charge for his visit. She refused to pay stating that he did not do anything. As a locksmith I, as many of you also, take offense to this.
It is not that she refused to pay the $39.00. Some people are just cheep. It is the idea that she considered having a locksmith drive to her home in the middle of the night as doing nothing. This guy, now I don’t know him, probably was at home with his feet up when he, as many of us do, answered the call to go and help someone with their locks. Getting up, putting your shoes on and getting into your van, and driving to someones house is not nothing. It is a service. It is not a free service.
I will not use this forum as a platform to make disparaging remarks about the celebrity in questions. Given her troubled past, that would be too easy. What I will say is we should all take this as an opportunity to realize that the world does not revolve around us and our problems, and you are correct when you say there are bigger things at work, but don’t most of the problems we see on the world news mostly boil down to not caring about another person’s situation and a lack of empathy.
So I close with this. Before you, “pull a Lindsey, ” and refuse to pay a service charge for someone who took the time to come to your home, remember this, they did not call you, you called them to your house, and their time is not free.
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