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Sad- Mother’s Story

One of my sons serves in the military. He is stationed in Ontario,Canada.
He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him and his troops everywhere they go.
Telling me how people shake their hands and thank them for being willing to serve and fight, not only our own freedoms but so that others may have them too.
Then he told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that several people were in the line ahead of him, including a woman dressed in a Burkha.
He said when she got to the cashier, she made a loud remark about the Canadian Flag lapel pin the cashier was wearing on her smock. The cashier reached up and touched the pin and said, “Yes, I always wear it proudly, because I’m a Canadian.”
The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.
Then, a Gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son’s shoulders and nodding towards my son, he then said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman

Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen.
It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn’t need to be there today.
But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I’ll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can Straighten out the Mess in YOUR country that you are Obviously here in MY country to avoid.

Everyone within hearing distance cheered!

IF YOU AGREE… Pass this on to all of your proud Canadian friends. I just did!

Very Amusing – School Attendance

This is hilarious – no wonder some people were offended! This is the message that the Pacific Palisades High School California staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine . This is the actual answering machine message for the school.
This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children’s absences and missing homework.
The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children’s failing grades changed to passing grades – even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not complete enough school work to pass their classes.
The outgoing message:

Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please listen to all the options before making a selection:
To lie about why your child is absent – Press 1
To make excuses for why your child did not do his work – Press 2
To complain about what we do – Press 3
To swear at staff members – Press 4
To ask why you didn’t get information that was already enclosed in your newsletter and several flyers mailed to you – Press 5
If you want us to raise your child – Press 6
If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone – Press 7
To request another teacher, for the third time this year – Press 8
To complain about bus transportation – Press 9
To complain about school lunches – Press 0

If you realize this is the real world and your child must be Accountable and responsible for his/her own behaviour, class work, homework and that it’s not the teachers’ fault for your child’s lack of effort: Hang up and have a nice day!
If you want this in another language, move to a country that speaks it.

Today”s Lesson

In 1923, who was:
 1. President of the largest steel company?
 2. President of the largest gas company?
 3. President of the New York Stock Exchange?
 4. Greatest wheat speculator?
 5. President of the Bank of International Settlement?
 6. Great Bear of Wall Street? These men were considered some of the world’s most
 successful of their day.  Now, 80 years later, the
 history book asks us, if we know what ultimately
 became of them.

 The answers:
 1. The president of the largest steel company, Charles
 Schwab, died a pauper.
 2. The president of the largest gas company, Edward
 Hopson, went insane.
 3. The president of the NYSE, Richard Whitney, was
 released from prison to die at home.
 4. The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cooger, died
 abroad, penniless.
 5. The president of the Bank of International
 Settlement, shot himself.
 6. The Great Bear of Wall Street, Cosabee Livermore,
 also committed suicide.

 However, in that same year, 1923, the PGA Champion,
 avid hunter and fisherman, and the winner of the most
 important golf tournament, the US
 Open, was Gene Sarazen.

 What became of him?

 He hunted until he was 90.  He played golf until he
 was 92, and he went fishing when he was 94.  He died
 in 1999 at the age of 95.  He was financially secure
 at the time of his death.

 The moral:
 Screw work.  Golf, hunt, and fish

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