Week nine challenged my journalistic integrity more than you would ever know. Before I tell you what happened let me mention that in my first day with D Magazine, the owner told the interns that if we ever excepted a gift from someone before or after covering a story for them that we would be fired immediately. I thought to myself "I would never do anything that stupid" but this week I was thinking a little differently. My editor told me that they had a story that I might like and when they told me I had to take pictures of the COO of TopGolf, my eyes lit up. I got his information and set up a time that was good for both of us. On Thursday I rolled up to this neighborhood that made me feel like I was just a peasant and when I saw his house my damn mouth dropped. He ended up being the nicest guy ever and his family was great. He asked if I wanted to take some pictures at TopGolf and I couldn't pass on that offer. When we got to TopGolf, he went to the front desk for a second and I didn't know what he was doing but I quickly gave up trying to guess what he was doing and started taking pictures. We ended up staying there for two hours after the pictures just talking and when I was packing up to head back to the office he handed me a TopGolf card and said "you like TopGolf right" and I told him that I freaking loved TopGolf and he proceeded to tell me that the card he just gave me allowed me to go to any TopGolf in the country and play as much as I wanted to for free. This man didn't know that he just made me the most disappointed person in the world. I handed the card back and explained to him that I would get fired if I excepted it and how much this gesture meant to me.

When I got back to the office I was pissed! I went to my desk and instantly started working on my pictures when my manager asked me how it went and I told her everything that happened. After the story she started laughing and said "thats the business" and said that she was proud that I was able to resist.