#83483 by Chippy
Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:21 pm
Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:21 pm
(OT)
This morning at the laundrette at about 5:30 am I helped out a wonderful old black lady who was having trouble with the change machine. I couldn't do much with the machine so I gave her some money and change for dollars. I have hardly anything but it sure made me feel good though I didn't do very much at all.
I for one think American people are some of the best people on the planet, I mean those who work with their hands mainly. Charity however I see very little of. Perhaps its the constant barrage of advertising, solicited phone calls, despite it being against the law once your number is listed on the "DO NOT CALL" list. It could of course just be down to the present climate, yes of course that must be it.
People used to smile a lot more. I remember it well too. I thought Wow he's from Russia for example, and he spoke to me! Everyone in the mix and the mix worked very well and for a very long time.
Not so these days. People walk about with glum expressions of distrust and dismay, it doesn't matter really what walk or place of origination either. It's like someone injected all of them at night with some acid that seals the face making them all look rather the same regardless of color.
Here too people are at the point of minor verbal explosions, forget the avatars for a minute, they just are not real, read the words.
I still wander into stores and smile. Always been my way and its cost me sometimes too since most think I'm selling something but no matter I just don't go back again is all, which is of course sad.
Someone once said of me. "You can take Chippy out of England but you cannot take the England out of Chippy". I wondered what he meant by that for sometime, but of late I'm starting to see exactly what he meant. That is my Achilles heal in some ways.
Anyway I see a smile a laugh, not forcing your thoughts upon someone who does not want to hear, offering a hand instead of backslapping, giving what you can without giving too much and many more things the mark of true Charity.
That's my take and the last of my epics and for me a return to music. Thank you.
Have a fantastic day!
This morning at the laundrette at about 5:30 am I helped out a wonderful old black lady who was having trouble with the change machine. I couldn't do much with the machine so I gave her some money and change for dollars. I have hardly anything but it sure made me feel good though I didn't do very much at all.
I for one think American people are some of the best people on the planet, I mean those who work with their hands mainly. Charity however I see very little of. Perhaps its the constant barrage of advertising, solicited phone calls, despite it being against the law once your number is listed on the "DO NOT CALL" list. It could of course just be down to the present climate, yes of course that must be it.
People used to smile a lot more. I remember it well too. I thought Wow he's from Russia for example, and he spoke to me! Everyone in the mix and the mix worked very well and for a very long time.
Not so these days. People walk about with glum expressions of distrust and dismay, it doesn't matter really what walk or place of origination either. It's like someone injected all of them at night with some acid that seals the face making them all look rather the same regardless of color.
Here too people are at the point of minor verbal explosions, forget the avatars for a minute, they just are not real, read the words.
I still wander into stores and smile. Always been my way and its cost me sometimes too since most think I'm selling something but no matter I just don't go back again is all, which is of course sad.
Someone once said of me. "You can take Chippy out of England but you cannot take the England out of Chippy". I wondered what he meant by that for sometime, but of late I'm starting to see exactly what he meant. That is my Achilles heal in some ways.
Anyway I see a smile a laugh, not forcing your thoughts upon someone who does not want to hear, offering a hand instead of backslapping, giving what you can without giving too much and many more things the mark of true Charity.
That's my take and the last of my epics and for me a return to music. Thank you.
Have a fantastic day!
