Corey Smith's Random Thoughts

It’s always a good idea to shop around a bit when you are considering hiring someone to perform a service for you. The challenge, very often, is knowing the right way to make the decision.

Usually, we try to guard ourselves against paying too much. We worry so much about paying more than we should that all too often we’ll choose a lower cost provider. In the absence of understanding the value that someone provides, you have to make your decisions based on the only information available. That usually defaults to price.

When was the last time you guarded yourself against paying too little? Did you even consider that might be a problem?

When I was a junior in high school, I was called to the office quite unceremoniously. It was a little strange for me because, until that point, I had not ever been called to the office for anything bad. (Until that point.)

When I got to the office I told them that I was Corey Smith. They looked at me and said, “You’re not Corey Smith.”

I asked them if they had a mirror for me to check.

Come to find out there was another Corey Smith in my high school that was about ready to be suspended and so they were going to give me a “what-for” when I got to the office. I think they were disappointed they couldn’t.