I’m just barely old enough to remember a time when people used phones for necessity rather than convenience. I just received a call from one of my brothers who had no reason for calling me other than his own boredom. I couldn’t help but ask him if his cable went out. Am I a bad person for not wanting to sit on the phone and talk about NOTHING!? It’s more tedious than watching CNN. I think that his time and mine would be more well spent doing something productive rather than yacking on about the same old crap with the same rhetorical blather. I only dial someone up when I feel like I need to and I certainly don’t keep them on the line for hours, rambling on about things that we both already know. If you or someone you know is a phone junkie, you might be worse than Hitler with a cell!
Daily Archives: February 11th, 2008
the person who is in fifth place?
Seriously? In the olympics only the WINNER gets a gold medal. The best in their event at that time wins the gold medal. The fifth place person/team does not get a medal. All those kids out there who get medals no matter how bad they are seem to think… “oh hey I can suck and still win!” That’s not how it should be. People who honestly work hard, do their best, and make their good better and their better best should get the gold medals. All this “feel good” BS is getting out of hand. It is creating a generation of children who think they can do whatever they want and still be winners. NO! They need to be told, listen, you didn’t get a medal this time but if you work harder and do better hey you might get one. That will create pride and ownership in their win. As the quote from the movie “The Rock” goes… “Losers go home, winners go home and fuc% the prom queen.” That’s how it’s done. You want to go home with the prom queen (sorry ladies only quote like that I have) you have to be the winner. Fifth place doesn’t get the prom queen now does it? NO! WINNERS get the queen. (okay got side tracked a little bit) If the kids notice that only the true winners get gold medals they will hopefully try harder to succeed and hopefully get off their ever increasingly sized butts and work harder to get that gold! Maybe create way more incentives to win? That might do it… I don’t know.
