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Just things I wonder about ... and some people are nice enough to answer. You are welcome to answer, too ... just click on "Comments" and off you go! IF you don't want to be Anonymous, use the Name/URL option and just put in your name ... no URL required .... Starting Jan 28th, 2009, I am using questions from "Table Topics: Right or Wrong?"
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TOOK ABOUT 20 YEARS BUT I NEVER FORGOT WHAT THE NURSE SAID "SOMEDAY
YOU CAN PASS IT ON" LOW AND BEHOLD
IT WAS JUST LAST WEEK THAT THE LITTLE GIRL AT OKIE DOKIE WHO IS ALSO GOING BACK TO SCHOOL TAKING ACCOUNTING COURSES HAD CAR TROUBLE AND WORRYING ABOUT GETTING A NEW WATER PUMP THAT WAS MY SIGNAL TO
EVEN THE SCORE, SHE HAS A NEW WATER
PUMP AND I FEEL PRETTY GOOD.
I was coming out of the grocery store one evening in a horrible thunderstorm - windy, gushing rain, the whole works. I had no rain coat or umbrella and ran to my car
The car next to mine had a flat tire, and the girl who owned the car was sitting in the car crying.
I changed her tire for her - getting soaking wet. All I wanted from her was to know why she had a large steel post through her tongue. She could not give me an explanation that made sense, so I left it at that.
I witnessed a horrible accident back in 1990 and made sure the truck driver who was injured was not moved until the paramedics came. I received a call from the driver's wife a few months later and found out he had broken vertabrea in his lower back and had I not 'known the rules' it would have been much worse.
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On another note, I make it a point to take empty shopping carts from people in the parking lot when I'm going into a store. I look at it this way, I will need a cart when I get inside and it saves them a few steps. Most people are very surpised when I say "I can take that for you...."
It was about 10 years ago, but I was driving along and saw a young man walking on the side of the road, obviously from the broken down car I had seen on the side of the road about a mile back. I stopped and picked him up. He told me that his car had run out of gas and he was trying to get home to get changed for his wedding. He probably wasn't a day over twenty. I said well I'll drive you to get some gas. He didn't have much money with him. I paid for the gas and drove him back to his car so he could fill it. He wanted my address and phone number so that he could pay me. I thanked him but said no, you can do the same for someone someday and that will be payment enough.
Made me feel great to have helped him and to know that he got to his wedding on time. Often wondered how he helped someone else out and if he is still married.
When I was about 7 or 8 years old we went to a community swiming pool. I noticed a boy younger than myself that looked as if he was having trouble keeping his head above water with no-one else watching and I could see him drowning fast. That end of the pool was just the proper depth fro me to slip underneath him and prop him up on my shoulders. I quickly swam towards him and got a good breath of air before I dove underneath him, placed his legs on my shoulders with him kicking, and lifted him up out of the water at least to his belly button, but I was still submerged. Holding my breath I walked him over to the endge of the pool. Once he latched onto the edge of the pool i them let go and surfaced. He was coughing up water and his mother noticing this came over in a hurry. My mother also noticed not being far away and came to assist the other mother with getting the boy out of the water and onto a poolside lounge chair where he continued to cough up water, especially when they placed his head lower than his chest. He must have been right on the edge of drowning. The boys mother was so very thankful. I sure went home stuffed with ice cream that day!
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