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With his motto, "Better safe than fired," Peter Rosen says he only did what any good office manager would do. "We needed that presentation in Austin on Monday, without fail. FedEx is great and all, but there's a first time for everything, and it's my ass on the line." Rosen acknowledged his less than daring strategy may cost the company money in duplicate postage, but he felt the insurance was worth it. "If this thing goes sideways, who's going to believe FedEx screwed up? No one. They're gonna think it was me and I can't have that blemish on my record." Despite massive layoffs in the company, Peter maintained he was being fiscally responsible. "It's not like I checked Saturday delivery. That's damn expensive."

Meagan Darmount said she was tired of feeling stupid. "Every week it was the same, 'What are you guys doing for après ski?' or 'That après ski was off the hook.' I figured 'ski' probably meant ski, but I had no idea what 'après' was and I seemed to be the only one not in on the joke." After a cousin told Meagan she thought it sounded kind of French, Meagan got some language tapes at the library. "It totally changed my life. Now when friends say they're going to the lodge for après ski, I say 'you bet, pass the frommage!'"

"You read about these scams and foreclosures every day in the paper," said Robert Dybasse. "I just didn't want to become a statistic." After looking at competitive rates online, Mr. Dybasse took negotiated a higher interest rate for himself in the hopes that he would avoid any bad news down the line. "If I'm gonna get caught with my pants down around my ankles, I just as soon be the guy who put 'em there, thank you very much."

Chester Syntax (not his real name) was balancing the books of his sister-in-law's aluminum siding company late Thursday when he noticed a surplus. "I didn't expect it, but there it was, plain as day. Eight unexplained dollars." That's when Chester did something he'd never done before: he shipped the audit out as is. "When your adrenaline gets going like that, you just act. It was kind of thrilling." Chester said he had trouble sleeping at first, but eventually came to accept his live on the edge actions. "The project was a freebie for my in-law. If she wants me to worry about a lousy eight bucks, she's gonna have to pay me my rate, and frankly, she can't afford me."

Joseph Buzzelli had been smoking steadily for 12 years when he decided to quit cold turkey, a move he thought his friends would consider, "wussy." Rather than risk their derision, he watched a marathon of "LA Ink" and told his friends he got a tat of his favorite hair band, Ratt. "I just showed this chick a photo and she like drew them from memory – Stephen Pearcy looks incredible." Joseph hopes to quit smoking soon, but dreads the day he removes the patch and actually has to get a tattoo of the now defunct band. "Frankly, I hate needles, but as long as my friends think I'm cool, it's all good."