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One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off! Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up. Remember the simple rules to be happy: Free your heart from hatred - Forgive. Free your mind from worries - Most will never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less
NOW ............
Enough of that crap . .. . The donkey later came back, and bit the farmer who had tried to bury him. The gash from the bite got infected and the farmer eventually died in agony from septic shock.
MORAL FROM TODAY'S LESSON:
When you do something wrong, and try to cover your ass, it always comes back to bite you.
-------------------- "Keep Positive"
SIGNS1st. Neil Butler Paradise, NF Posts: 6277 | From: St. John's NF Canada | Registered: Mar 1999
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Thanks Neil, just what I needed to read. The last couple of weeks I have felt just like that donkey, it all started when I decided to go up to Indiana to visit family. The day before leaving I was taking my pop-up camper to get the tires checked when I had a blow-out, not too bad, I was only about 1/2 mile from home and on a dirt road (well it was dirt until it started raining), got all the tools out and started to change the tire.......not..., some burly he-man must have put the lug nuts on, cuz they weren't coming off. 3 hours later and all of my significant weight on the spanner? I finally got the tire changed and back on the road. (Needless to say I left out all the contortions and fussin' and cussin') Fast forward to Hwy 65 or was it 24, anyway somewhere close to Nashville my sister's peekapom starts heaving so being the compasionate person I am, I immediately start to pull over and BOOM.....Great, now I got a blow-out on my 2007 Silverado passenger rear, sidewall no less. No problem, maybe I can get my time down to 2 hours since I've just been there, done this. When I stopped the truck it was 97 degrees, when I put it in park it was 118. HOLY hockey pucks, I'm gonna die out here. My sister has been thru radiation and can not tolerate the heat, plus she has her two little poms, Midas and Touch (get it?) with us. I figure it's gonna take me an hour just to unload the dog pins and crap we have in the back seat before I can even find the tool that lowers that @#$% spare tire, you wouldn't even believe where they hide that little jewel. Now I've always considered myself tuff-chick, I can do anything and have, but now I'm almost 47, it's hotter than Hades, and I'm thinking ummmmm maybe I'm not so tuff, in fact, I'm thinkin I don't stand a chance of getting the lugs to all break loose, to get that stupid spare tire down and off that hoist and to get .........well any of it done before we all die from heat stroke. And of course I gotta do this while the truck is running so my sis can stay in the a/c, just knowin its gonna be a blast furnace under there. what am I gonna do? tick tick tick......(light bulb flash) ring, ring, Hello, Cindy Chevrolet how may we help you? Hi, this is Kymi and I need to know if I have any road side assistance on this truck I bought from you? Yes, Kymi do you see the blue button on your rearview mirror? Yes... Push it to connect to ONSTAR. Oh, thank God...I forgot I had that! No more than 15 minutes later my new favorite person in the world shows up and changes my tire. He even brought his own tools to get that @#$% tire lowered from its hidey hole. 15 minutes later we're back on the road. Kinda felt guilty letting someone else do my work for me, but indulegent and relived were a fast second.
Brown County State Park, Indiana, get stung 1st time ever by YELLOW JACKET, me, the champion of bees, couldn't believe how bad it hurt, 24 hours of horrible pain, weeks later, still looks like I got shot. Tuff-chick thinks yellow jackets suck very bad!!! Thank God there was only one of the little buggers. Storm Fay turns 2 week vacation into 3, cuz husband doesn't want me driving in it. Missed most of it till downtown Atlanta 9:30 at night, pouring to beat the band, guy in front of me, his car stalls right in the middle of the freeway. We sit there for 10 minutes, can't see anything, crazy drivers zooming all around us, sister screaming for me to go around him cuz were gonna get creamed, and this guy gets out and tries to push his car to no avail, scared to death I was going to see a guy splattered all over the hwy. Normally I would try and help, but way too dangerous. Finally got an opening and took it, felt sick leaving that guy, hope somebody who knew where we were called for help. Fast forward to two days ago, back to back gall bladder attacks, 2 hours sleep in 48 hours, I go outside to start cleaning up the truck and notice when I go to get in the back, the bumper is humped up, step back to look at it and it has a huge dent, which has pushed in the rear quarter panel. Oh crap when did that happen? Seems like I'm not suppose to have nice stuff. Waiting on adjuster to get here today and hear a huge crash outside. Walk out back by my shop, and there lies an 80' tall pine tree on my other truck and pop-up camper. Truck faired pretty well, busted windshield and side mirror but camper pretty much smooshed, truck is an 89 Nissan so no comprehensive car insurance, homeowners ins is Citizens and they don't cover diddly. Crazy thing is I just moved pop-up and truck so I could mow the 2 ft tall grass from being on vacation. So now I am just shaking it off and taking a step up, like Neil says. And I have found the silver lining...at least that tree didn't hit my shop with my VersaCamm in it, that I'm still making payments on. Oh yeah and one other thing, at least I'm not pregnant...lol.
-------------------- Kymi Hum Vital Signs by Kymi Hum Dunnellon, FL vitalsignsbykymi@aol.com wyme on mIRC Posts: 58 | From: Dunnellon, FL, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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quote:Originally posted by Kymi Hum: Oh yeah and one other thing, at least I'm not pregnant...lol.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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Very inspirational story Neil...but I gotta say that Kymi description of her past few weeks was a great example of expressing a bunch of horrible situations in a humorous way. She has a great writing style and a her story shows that she has a super positive attitude but comes off as a "real"person not a Ned Flanders type. I look back at my recent "downers" and now they don't seem so bad at all.
Good Kharma Coming Your Way!
-------------------- Tony Lucero Eagle Graphics Waterford, MI www.eaglegph.com Posts: 305 | From: Waterford, MI, USA | Registered: Apr 2000
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