Samantha had a nasty habit of showing up late for her shift at the toll booth every morning. The traffic lines were horrible to begin with, but when she was late motorists began to demonstrate their frustration. Inevitably, her boss fired her and she found herself out of a job.

That was two jobs ago. She is currently sitting in traffic at the very toll booth from where she use to collect a buck fifty from every motorist. She should know better than to not have enough change. She will just hold up the line waiting for the attendant to give her two quarters back. It was days like this that she wished she lived in Missouri, where you could drive through the entire state without coming across one toll, instead of Florida, where it costs the equivalent of a value meal just to get down the road.

Finally, she pulled into the farthest spot left in the employee lot, cursing herself for being late again. Her boss looks mad when she opens the door. She tests the waters by offering a cheerful Good Morning. His response is a wave of his hand drawing her into his office. The door shuts behind her.

As she opens the door and walks back out to the last parking spot, she knows she has only herself to blame, and those long lines at the toll booth. Blast! She is out of a job again. What could she do with her life now? Going back to school is something she has always wanted to do, but that means she has to have time and money to do it. She has to keep working to pay her bills.

It is a vicious cycle. She has to work to keep her apartment and pay the bills, she needs a job but she wants a better job. To get a better job she needs money to go to school and time to do it. She has no money because she can not find a job to pay her bills and school and she has no time because she is busy with her full time job to pay the bills.

She looks up as she puts her key in the ignition and huffs! Someone has placed an ad or solicitation on her windshield. Rather than getting up to reach it, she opens the door, stretches her arm in front of the windshield and swipes the wipers on for a quick chance to reach the litter. OUCH! Sam missed and the wiper only ended up breaking her fingernail. What a day!

She angrily yanks the ad from her car, crumples it up and throws it in the passenger floorboard.

A few miles down the road she remembers she did not buy a soda from the machine at work and so she has no extra change for the 75 cent toll. Could her day get any worse! She is a few cars back in line and as she scrambles around for an extra quarter, she notices the ad she so hastily threw aside a few minutes ago.

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She picks it up to read the phone number and right there under the ad is a shiny new quarter. She smiles and notices that her luck is changing. She had heard of mystery shopper careers, but thought they were only a myth. But it sounds like the perfect job for her, and accommodating to her tardiness problem.

Sam listens to her change clink down the funnel and goes when the light is green. She quickly dials the number from the mystery shopper ad and sets up her interview.

A week later Sam receives an email with her first mystery shopper assignment. She laughs so hard, she can hardly contain herself. It seems her experience makes her the perfect candidate to shop her favorite toll booth. She feels around the bottom of her purse for a buck fifty and heads out the door.