The Garbage Truck Philosophy

One day I hopped onto a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly!

So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital or the morgue!" This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck."

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage (frustration, anger, disappointment, etc.). As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so ... 'Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't.'

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it, according to the taxi-driver - philosopher. He should be a professor in a university.

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Kite Surfing

Flying kites has been a great centuries old pastime, at least in China. Kite surfing though is something rather new, at least in Spain. It's a upgraded version of windsurfing, a fairly new sport practiced only in a few coastal towns here. Tarifa in southern Spain provides optimal conditions, also the beach of Sant Pere Pescador, on the other side of Roses Bay, my present home. By car it takes less than half an hour.

Four Kite surfing schools offer both beginners and professionals assistance. There's also a private club with more than 140 members. It's goal is to make the fledging sport recognised and encouraged. Two beach areas of Sant Pere Pescador are available to kite surfers: the beach at the camp site 'Ballena Alegre' ( a cute name this one, in English it means Jolly or happy Whale ) and the beach section at the estuary of the river Fluvia.

Not long ago, a 14 year old Gisela Polldo became the 1st world ranking in kiting with her first kite experiments. A good advertisement for Sant Pere even though Pulldo, aiming to become professional, currently trains in Tarifa.

More information about the sport is available on the Internet under:

http://www.kiteexperience.com

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Smoking In The Rain

Two old ladies were waiting for a bus and one of them was smoking a cigarette. It started to rain, so the old lady reached into her purse, took out a condom, bid off the tip and slipped it over her cigarette and continued to smoke. Her friend saw this and said, 'Hey that's a good idea! But, what is that thing you put over your cigarette?' The other old lady said, 'It's a condom.' 'A condom? Where do you get those?' The lady with the cigarette told her friend that you could purchase condoms at any pharmacy. When the two old ladies arrived downtown, the one with all the questions went into the pharmacy and asked the pharmacist if he sold condoms. The pharmacist said yes, but looked a little surprised that this old woman was interested in condoms, so he asked her, 'What size do you want?' The old lady thought for a minute and said, 'One that will fit a Camel.' Tags: Cigarette,Camel

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If Ever You Feel A Bit Dumb ...

If you ever feel a little bit stupid, you'll begin to think you're a genius after you read this ...

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(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: 'I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,'
--Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.
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'Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world,
I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies
and death and stuff.'
--Mariah Carey
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'Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life,'
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal
anti-smoking campaign
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'I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,'
--Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
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'Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,'

--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC
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'That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass,
and I'm just the one to do it,'
--A congressional candidate in Texas .
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'Half this game is ninety percent mental.'
--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
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'It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.'
--Al Gore, Vice President
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'I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix '
-- Dan Quayle
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'We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need ?'
--Lee Iacocca
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'The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.'
--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.
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'We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people.'
-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.
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'Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.'
-- Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina
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'Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas
--Keppel Enderbery
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'If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.'
--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
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Feeling smarter yet?

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The Beauty And The Old Fox

An old, white haired gentleman walked into a jewellery store one Friday evening with a beautiful young blonde at his side.

He told the jeweller he was looking for a special ring for his girlfriend. The jeweller looked through his stock and brought out a £5,000 ring. The old man said, 'No, I'd like to see something more special.'

At that statement, the jeweller went to his special stock and brought another ring over. 'Here's a stunning ring at only £40,000' the jeweller said.

The young lady's eyes sparkled and her whole body trembled with excitement. Seeing this the old man said, 'We'll take it.'

The jeweller asked how payment would be made and the old man stated, 'By cheque. I know you need to make sure my cheque is good, so I'll write it now, and you can call the bank Monday morning to verify the funds, and I'll pick the ring up the same afternoon,' he said.

Monday morning, the jeweller phoned the old man.
'There's no money in that account.'
'I know,' said the old man smiling, 'But let me tell you about my passionate weekend!'

Tags: OldFox,Jeweller

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