The booth was where it has been for years. The company sold journals and was at the trade show every year.
And, as in years past, they were offering free embossed journals as a promotion.
As we have in the past, we picked a journal and waited on line thinking about the clever words, or variation of a name, we would ask to be embossed on the cover.
But then the question came to us.
“Do we really need them?” We thought about the free sample journals we got last year and couldn’t remember where we put them - let alone having used them.
No ! We didn’t need them. Free or not, we didn’t need.
We put back our samples and left the line.
And later, when we passed the booth a second time, we were tempted again, picked up the sample and quickly put it back.
Simply, we didn’t need it.