Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
The most common fib of all time may be “I have read and agreed to the terms and conditions” – but this Georgia teacher has just become a prime example of why it actually pays to read the fine print.
Travel insurance company Squaremouth launched a secret contest in which they would award $10,000 to the first consumer who read through the fine print of their contract.
They would also use the contest as an excuse to donate an additional $10,000 to a children’s literacy charity.With details of the prize buried on page 7 of their insurance contract, the sweepstakes was set to last for 12 months – and if no one succeeded in reading the contract, then they would simply ditch the prize and donate to the nonprofit.
They were shocked, however, when 59-year-old Donelan Andrews claimed the prize just 23 hours after the contest started.
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For the last 25 years, Andrews has worked as a home economics and consumer science teacher at Upson-Lee High School and Lamar County High School in Georgia. Andrews says that she uses her classes to teach senior students important life skills such as work ethic, how to find jobs, and how to interview – but one of the important skills Andrews emphasizes to all of her classes is the importance of reading a contract.
Andrews had taken out the travel insurance…
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