Ask Amy: Readers respond with helpful advice
Dear Amy: “Scammed” wrote about the increasingly popular scam of being contacted by a supposedly reputable company which asks you to purchase gift cards.
You suggested that store clerks selling gift cards should be trained to be on the lookout.
I purchased several hundred dollars’ worth of gift cards at my local Giant grocery store, and the clerk did ask me if a third party had asked me to buy the cards.
Out of curiosity, I asked if anyone has ever answered “yes” to that question, and he said that indeed they had stopped many people from falling prey to this scam.
Store employees are certainly a great weapon against these scammers.
– Faithful Customer
Dear Customer: I am very happy to learn that store clerks are helping to educate customers on the danger of gift card scammers.
Dear Amy: I appreciated your response to “Stop Haunting My Dreams,” on what to do when you dream of a former beloved.
Carl Jung suggested that other humans in our dreams often represent unconscious (in the “shadow”) aspects of ourselves that are inviting conscious attention to, and even conscious incorporation of, (some of) the person’s trait(s) into our own personalities.
For instance: What desired aspects of this man does the dreamer need to recognize and develop in herself, for her own use? What thoughts, feelings and behaviors (the discrete elements of personality) does he represent that she could embrace and enact as her own? Not simple questions, but often fruitful.
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