I trust very few people, including my own family. To put it simply, most of the members of my family are dishonest people. There are a few people whom I trust implicitly, however. My closest friend was having financial trouble recently because her hours at work sucked. I went over to her house one afternoon and she was standing in her kitchen making a sandwich and sniffling. I made up an excuse to go back to my house, wrote her a check to cover a month’s living expenses, and went back over and gave it to her. I didn’t ask her to sign anything, and I told her to take as long as she wanted to pay me back. But it’s rare that I extend that amount of trust to anybody. She and just a couple of other people are the exceptions.