2019-09-01 Reader\'s Digest

$10,000

FOR READING

THE FINE PRINT

donelan andrews,

age 60,

Thomaston, Georgia

contracts. They ex-

pected it to take a year

to find a winner.

You must be a lawyer.

I’m actually a learning

coordinator who helps

kids figure out careers

and enter the work-

force. It’s second nature

to know what I’m sign-

ing up for.

How do you show kids

the importance of

reading the fine print?

When I would make a

test, the last part of the

directions would say

something like “You

Was this a contest?
Sort of. I bought travel
insurance for a trip to
London from a com-
pany called Square-
mouth. When I got to
the seventh page of the
contract, I saw a para-
graph that said, “It pays
to read.” It gave direc-
tions to e-mail a partic-
ular address. They
called the next day and
said I’d won $10,000.
During the 23-hour
period before I e-mailed
them, 73 policies had
been purchased and
I was the only one who
had read that far.

Why did Squaremouth
do this?
To promote the
importance of reading

can gain 10 bonus

points if you circle the

number 10 on page 2.”

About a third of the

class would do that,

and the other two thirds

would be mad when

they got their tests back.

What are you going to do

with the prize money?

My husband and I are

celebrating our 35th

wedding anniversary

and my retirement this

summer, so it paid for a

trip to Scotland. And I

have already purchased

travel insurance for

that as well.

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illustration by John Cuneo

I WON!