One of the hardest lessons that life has taught me is the fact that it’s usually easier to do something convenient than it is to do what should be done.  I mean, speaking generally, it’s a lot easier for me to put a dirty plate in the sink than it is to rinse it off and put it in the dishwasher… especially since it’s also easier to wait for someone else to empty the diswasher than it is for me to do it myself.

Life tends to throw obvious instances of this fact in your face.  For example, there’s trash on the ground right around the wastebasket, but you didn’t put it there.  What do you do?  Most of us would walk right past it… unless we’re in Iraq, at which point we call in the Bomb Squad.  Someone left their lights on in the parking lot.  I COULD go tell someone in the store, or I could say to myself “I hope they have cables”.

But what about when it actually costs you something to “do the right thing”.  I’m only going to be a minute, should I put money in the parking meter?