The benefits of offering rewards

I lost my work ID tag yesterday.  It drove me nuts because you can't move around the building very easily without it.    I checked all the most recent places I'd been to and couldn't find it.  So I sent out an email offering a reward for its return.  One minute later I got a phone call.  The thief had owned up and wanted their reward.  Of course it was an unconditional reward, so I still had to pay up despite the fact that they had stolen my tag, by mistake of course.

The reward - dried apricots.  It's amazing what people will do for a free feed.  I even had people emailing me pretending they had my card so they could collect the reward.

So the moral of the story - if you want anything, just offer a reward.