FREE -- THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH!!!

Hey you .... want a free MAC book? Just click on this "icon" and fill out our "easy" questionnaire and you will get a brand new lap top -- absolutely free. Did you ever see the teeny-tiny print below that says you have to complete about 100 offers in order to get this "free" lap top.

Then you get to the page. Well, it asks a few survey questions, but not before it directs you to almost a million pages of other "free" offers. Of course if you don't read the fine print, you will be signing your life away for everything from changing your phone service to giving them your first born. (which, by the way, I've considered from time to time).

We get free things where I work. We get everything from pens to umbrellas to cookies. Of course the vendors want us to use their services; hence the free stuff. This precipitated our supervisors into saying "NO" you can't accept because a few vendors complained we were taking the stuff and then not calling them. Heck, I thought it was free. (Now, Matt ... I don't mean you.)

Water used to be free. You got a glass anywhere you asked. Now you have to pay upwards of one dollar and get it in a bottle. Of course if you want "designer" water to keep up with the Jones', you will pay more. Even the air we breathe isn't free anymore. It is so full of pollutants and pollen that we are broke buying antihistamines and inhalers.

Does anyone know what really is "free"???