I wasn't sure I had anything to say today, but....

a friend of mine just sent me a piece she wrote about a visit from a former student. Now what you need to know is that Anne is a teacher, in inner city Philly. For those of you who don't know that means very low income kids who are disadvantaged in more ways than just things money can by. And the "money can by stuff" is often heartrending enough. Some of these kids have no bed to call their own, and call a two bricks and a board a "couch". They go to be hungry and know what real fear is...they see their family members in jail, in the psych ward, in rehab and dying from things they should not die from. THe hit the floor when a car backfires, because they think it sounds too close to gun shots, they attend the funerals of friends and relatives who fall in fights or in drive by shootings. And their lack of education is the price they pay for all this "knowledge" by the time these kids hit kindergarten many have Phd's fron the School of Hard Knocks.
And she teaches them ~ to read, to write, to cipher , to believe in their dreams and she teaches them that she can be trusted in a world that offers them too little to trust in. And some times they come back.
Latasha did today ~ and made a difference to someone who had helped her...paid it back ina very real sense. Latasha told Anne that she was graduating with honors and going to the U of Alabama to become an OB\GYN! A hero in the guise of a young woman, talking to a hero of teacher ready to retire. And each was intent on making the other understand that they had made a difference.

wouldn't the world be a better place if we all did the same?

I want to do this

http://porthood.ca/events/view/12

1.5km Swim ( 1 mi) , 40 km (25 mi) Bike, 10 km (6.25mi) Run in Cape Breton. The Swim is in the North Atlantic. Gotta love it! I won't be doing it this year - but next July here I come! It's my goal for the next year.

Paulter's in Lancaster NY Sucks and I hope they close

There is this total BRAT of a n attendent who thinks he is hot stuff..... he has treated people like crap for suck a long time but they are *supposed* to be a full service place with prices that are lower than the self pump places ~ their service stinks. This brat of a child refused me service yesterday because he does not like where my gas tank is on the car and when I tried to move it around so he did not h ave to exert his poor ickle self to do his actual job - he moved twop other cars in place blocking me off from getting gas. When I tried to talk to him about it he told me he does not have to serve me.. and he wouldn't.
Talked to his boss who backed him.
Went back today when it was empty and gas tank where he did not have to exert his poor ickle self to reach the gas tank and he refused service because he doesn't like my attitude and told me never to come back when he's there. .....um sunshine you can blow youself up and die a horrid death because you are so far in the wrong you ain't even in the same solar system as right. You're a gas jockey - that means sometime you're going have exert your self and actually pull the hose over the car and serve cars with tanks you don't like where they are !!! that's your job. You should not be able to refuse service on such things.
But your stupid self centered generation thinks that you don't have to deal with any inconvenience and everythign should be your way...and if not you are too damned good to deal with it. If you refuse because the tank in on the wrong side of the car and then block people because of it~ you and your poor, pitiful ickle ego are going to get attitude because you are WRONG. If you refuse do things like check oil and tire pressure cause it's "not your job" at a FULL service station as this same brat did to my mother and aunt - you're going to hear about it. If you don't want to do your job....get another one! But you are way in the WRONG And I hope you pay the biggest price every diety there is can come up with...you deserve it!


Don't comment on this ~ I don't want to hear about it.