(This post was last modified: 03-16-2021, 08:12 PM by SRZ65LE#31.)
“The guy who sold one of these razors for $255 will have to refund the buyer in full because Phil is refunding the seller. So the story that the seller's wife got made because he bought an expensive razor was totally bogus to put it mildly.”
I myself was recently politely reminded, and very correctly, of the importance of not assuming “facts not in evidence.” We do not know what that seller’s experience actually was. It may be both that his spouse was unhappy, and so he chose to sell the razor, and he didn’t yet know the razor was defective.
In this day and age, there are so many persons making premature, and possibly unfair, judgments it’s very very tempting to join in the fun. But I myself was recently just “too clever by half” in a misguided effort to lighten the mood so-to-speak. That was inconsiderate and poor judgment on my part. Before long, another well-meaning DFS member reasonable pointed this out and I learned (or, more precisely, re-learned) an important lesson.
Now here’s the follow-up related lesson I also was reminded of too: It’s not the mistakes we make, but how we respond to them, (especially when politely informed by the well-meaning third-party observer) that really counts. So, when I foul up, I try to see how I fouled up, and then to acknowledge it. Speaking only for myself, I’ve found this makes for a less upsetting life.
