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    >   I judge my days three ways:   
    >   A bad day is if I come home with less money than when I left.   
    >   A good day is coming home with the same amount I left with.   
    >   A really good day is coming home with more than I left with.   
    >   (I sometimes find change on the ground to and from work and at work, esp   
    > around meters where drop coins and leave them.  Sometimes I find only a few   
    > cents a week, sometimes nothing and sometimes close to or over a dollar in   
    > nickels, dimes and pennies).   
      
   Others think the change not worth bending over for, but look at you: picking up   
   a few extra bucks a month for very little effort.   
      
   My dad, on retirement, would ride his bike up the up-country road, picking up   
   refundable drink containers; he was making about $100 a month which paid for   
   his hobbies & left over enough to support some of my mom's, too!   
      
   Once he saw a pair of jeans -- well run over & weatherbeaten; he rode on past,   
   but around the next corner some thing told him to go back, so he did, checked   
   the pockets & found $300 in cash!   
      
   Broiken, discarded bikes in the ditch, come back later with the truck, bring em   
   home & fix them & give away, or sell cheap, as is to a bike repair shop in   
   town. Either way, net money in his pocket to supplement his retirement income.   
      
    >    I saw that in action once.   
    >    My then major was calling for a volunteer among five of us.  Four of us   
    > took a step backward and one found himself front of them.  :)   
      
   Problem is; the voluntold one isn't going to speak up for fear of being   
   labelled a wuss, complainer, or reneger, eh?   
      
    >   Too often kids fresh out of school and a piece of paper with the ink   
    > barely dry seem to think they came waltz into some business and be made CEO   
    > off the bat.   
    >   We have a lot of trouble in security with young people wanting a cheque   
    > but not for any effort given.   
    >   I tell others if I ran the company it would be my policy to hire no one   
    > under 30.     
    >   By then, hopefully, the people would have some idea of responsibility,   
    > work ethic, etc.   
      
   Too bad that's illegal; I like the concept -- of course, tyhe wy arounmd being   
   accused of age discrimination is to simply say your reason for not hiring is   
   "they don't fit well into our current team dynamic" (i.e.(unstated) current   
   team doesn't cotton well to useless tits.)   
      
    > > I decided not to get rid of my tumor anymore   
    > > I dont know why, i guess it just grew on me.   
      
    >    ==Groan==   
      
   I didn't write it, but I was happy to share it! :D    
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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