Paying the penalty

I didn't have to pay the telephone bill, but I did have to pay a penalty to the airline. The price of my ticket had been fifty dollars less because I was on a three-day excursion. When I changed my ticket, I had to pay fifty dollars extra. So twenty-seven dollars I saved, but fifty dollars I lost. Still, I was happy to come home because here at any time I can get heat — at least from the radiator. In Bermuda it rains only twenty days a year, but one of those days was when I was there!

From:Sri Chinmoy,Salutations, numbers 9-12, Agni Press, 1983
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