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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / May 2005OTP: Points to Ponder
Things to ponder 1. If you plant some bird seed, will a bird come up? 2. Photons have mass? Did anyone even know they were Catholic? 3. It'd be nice to have a chance to prove money can't make one happy. 4. I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. 5. If the world was a logical place, men would ride horses sidesaddle. 6. What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free? 7. They told me I was gullible.... and I believed them. 8. Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to edge his car onto a freeway. 9. One nice thing about egotists... they don't talk about other people. 10. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. 11. The high cost of living hasn't affected its popularity. 12. How can there be self-help "groups"? 13. Is there another word for synonym? 14. The speed of time is one second per second. 15. What's another word for thesaurus? 16. If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales? 17. It's not an optical illusion. It just looks like one. 18. Is it my imagination, or do buffalo wings taste like chicken? ________________________________ DeeTee and Bob Taggart http://www.marykay.com/dtaggart3 http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8fwov/ ________________________________ > Things to ponder > > snip> 8. Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows > up, he'll never be able to edge his car onto a freeway. <snip> __ as funny as this sounds, this is much truer than you might imagine. i had my drivers license for more than 3 years (since age 15 1/2 ), before my girlfriend, since high school, patiently decided she'd had enough of my driving the backroads to get anywhere in the bay area. brilliant and brave soul that she was, in a lot of ways, she sat beside me, coaxed and coached me onto northbound highway 101 from san jose, for the first time. barb told me, "drive like you own the road". "i don't think so," is how i felt about it, and of course, i didn't tell her that. she said i could do it, and i believed her because she was brave enough (or crazy enough) to sit next to me while i did, is all it amounted to. mind you, barb didn't get her own driver's license and didn't drive, until around 1990. she was convinced she couldn't drive (and nobody, not even me, could un-convince her until then), just like for more than 3 years, nobody else could convince me i really could be pushy enough to get onto the freeway. yep, go figure; and it is astonishing to me that too-southern-polite and too-northern-polite wound up to be two, too-californian-polites.LOL and friends over the course of 40 years. fun memory. kate ______________________________ > DeeTee and Bob Taggart > http://www.marykay.com/dtaggart3 > http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8fwov/ > ________________________________ >> Things to ponder >> [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > kate A little different from how I learned to drive. You probably shouldn't ride anywhere with me when we are in Portland. As soon as I had my license, my parents gave me the car keys and told me to drive (from Rockville, MD) out to Dulles Airport and back for practice. They sent me out there every Saturday afternoon for several months. Now I've been in rural California long enough that I've gotten pretty laid back. Except that no one, and I mean no one steals a parking place from me unless I let them. Jo >>> Things to ponder >>> [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > Jo LOL.sounds like it was good practice. i still get beat out of parking spaces, even after sitting and waiting for the spot for the longest time with my turn signal on; and even with my handicapped plaquard, by other gimps.LOL when butch and i first moved up here in '75, we were both soooo impressed by how polite washington drivers were. totally gracious. they're not anymore.LOL heck, we weren't taught to get onto the freeway in driver's training. and i never really *had* to get on the freeway, cuz i had a lot of friends who drove, too. if we were heading to the beach or to san francisco or south, i'd just let them drive. barb almost ran over her own dentist in a crosswalk, once, during driver's ed. class (hit the brake a little late for the light). then she was so embarrassed, all she could do was wave at him and say, "hi!"LOL and me, i was constantly apologizing to the curbs i hit when i cut my turns too sharply. seriously, i even apologized to somebody's lawn once.LOL ummm . . . i think i need to say that neither barb nor i were dummies in high school. both of us won scholarships--hard to believe, huh. we were just a little "odd" when it came to driving.LOL gads, poor mr. falcone. i can't imagine anybody *wanting* to teach driver's ed to a car full of high school kids! i think he just got stuck with the class.LOL kate DeeTee wrote: > 6. What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free? Plus shipping and handling (which often is more than the value of the "gift"). ... The only difference between an IRS agent and a taxidermist ... is the taxidermist leaves your skin. Mark Twain DeeTee wrote: > 8. Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, > when he grows up, he'll never be able to edge his car onto a > freeway. From Readers Digest, 25-30 years ago: A distraught driver was frozen at the YIELD sign posted at the freeway onramp, with dozens of other cars stacking up behind. Finally a fellow walks up to the stalled car and declares, "Lady, the sign says "yield", not surrender." ... Insomnia isn't anything to lose sleep over. I wasn't too polite for freeways--I simply froze up on driver's tests. Not the written. I aced those. I tried twice--in Hawthorne and in Torrance, both in Los Angeles County, California. There were no small towns within a hundred miles of me to try at. The state of California decided not to give me a license and I never tried again. The funny thing is I drove for two years on learner permits and never had a ticket or an accident. Oh, well. Nell |
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