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Mean What You Say In the article “Think a Second Time” Dennis Prayer illustrates the StoreKeeper Law. The law comes to us from the Jewish Tamud. The law reads: One is not permitted to ask the storekeeper the price of an item if he knows he will not purchase it. When the law is accurately understood and practiced, it can have an impact on a person’s character and societies qualify of life. When you ask a storekeeper the price of the item in which that you have no intention of buying, you are deceiving the storekeeper, and in fact robbing the storekeeper of his precious time. The law is as relevant today, as it was when it was first created. Another reason why the StoreKeeper law forbids such activity is those who disobey the law are willfully misleading sales people about their income which is the most important concern of their life. Whenever we try on clothes, ask the price of an item we are implying the probability we might purchase that item and this is exactly what the salesperson infers.