Why She Repaid a Stranger's Good Turn at the Heat Pump
A woman in Kingfisher tried to pay me for a fuse I had replaced on a fan motor. It was a two-dollar fuse. I had been at the house for fifteen minutes total. I had told her there was no charge. She did not believe me. She tried to give me a twenty. When I refused, she went to the kitchen and came back with a tin of homemade peanut brittle and pressed it into my hand. She said, well, you have to take this then. I want to talk about that today. About what happens inside a person when somebody gives them something for nothing. Alvin Gouldner wrote a paper in 1960 in the American Sociological…
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