5 Great Lessons of life.....

[ragt20]

Some Important Lessons Life Teaches You...

First Most Important Lesson
During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a
pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and he breezed through the
questions, until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the
woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was some kind of joke. I
had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper,
leaving the last question blank. Just before class ended, one
student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz
grade."Absolutely," said the professor. "In your careers, you will
meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention
and care, even if all you do is smile and say 'hello'." "I've never
forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy..........

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Second Important Lesson

Pickup in the Rain One night, at 11:30
PM, an older African American woman was standing on the side of an
Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rain storm.Her car had
broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she decided to
flag down the next car. A young white man stopped to help her, generally
unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960s. The man took her to
safety, helped her get assistance and put her into a taxi cab. She seemed to
be in a big hurry, but wrote down his address and thanked him. Seven
days went by and a knock came on the man's door. To his surprise, a giant
console color TV was delivered to his home. A special note was
attached. It read: "Thank you so much for assisting me on the highway the
other night. The rain drenched not only my clothes, but also my spirits.
Then you came along. Because of you, I was able to make it to my dying
husband's bedside just before he passed away. God bless you for
helping me and unselfishly serving others." Sincerely, Mrs. Nat King Cole.:sun:

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Third Important Lesson

Always remember those who serve you
In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10 year old
boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a
glass of water in front of him. "How much is an ice cream sundae?" he
asked.
"Fifty cents," replied the waitress. The little boy pulled his hand
out of his pocket and studied the coins in it. "Well, how much is a
plain dish of ice cream?" he inquired. By now more people were waiting for
a table and the waitress was growing impatient. "Thirty-five cents,"
she brusquely replied." The little boy again counted his coins. "I'll
have the plain ice cream," he said. The waitress brought the ice cream,
put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice
cream, paid the cashier and left. When the waitress came back, she began to
cry as she wiped down the table. There, placed neatly beside the empty
dish, were two nickels and five pennies - You see, he couldn't have the
sundae, because he had to have enough left to leave her a tip.

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Fourth Important Lesson

The Obstacle in Our Path In ancient
times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself
and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the
king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around
it. Many loudly blamed the king for not keeping the roads clear, But
none did anything about getting the stone out of the way. Then a peasant
came along carrying a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder,
the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side
of the road. After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded.
After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a
purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained
many gold coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for
the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned
what many of us never understand. Every obstacle presents an
opportunity to improve our condition.

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Fifth Important Lesson

Giving When it Counts Many years ago,
when I worked as a volunteer at a hospital, I got to know a little
girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her
only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her
5-year old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness. The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the little
boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him
hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying,
"Yes,I'll do it if it will save her.." As the transfusion progressed, he
lay in bed next to his sister and smiled,as we all did, seeing the
color returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile died.
He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I
start to die right away?" Being young, the little boy had misunderstood
the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all
of his blood in order to save her. You see understanding and attitude,
after all, is everything.

[gang$tarr]

Originally posted by ragt20
A young white man stopped to help her, generally
unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960s. The man took her to
safety, helped her get assistance and put her into a taxi cab. She seemed to
be in a big hurry, but wrote down his address and thanked him. Seven
days went by and a knock came on the man's door. To his surprise, a giant
console color TV was delivered to his home. A special note was
attached.

i'm sure they had lots of huge color TVs in the 60s..... LOL

[JD@af]

ragt20, thanks for sharing those tales with us. Great lessons to be contemplated!!

[ragt20]

Originally posted by gang$tarr


i'm sure they had lots of huge color TVs in the 60s..... LOL

dependz on wot your undrestanding of huge was at that time......I seem to remember the days when 21" tvs were considered huge.....and nowadays anything under 32" widescreen is tiny :silly2: :silly2:

[gang$tarr]

Originally posted by ragt20


dependz on wot your undrestanding of huge was at that time......I seem to remember the days when 21" tvs were considered huge.....and nowadays anything under 32" widescreen is tiny :silly2: :silly2:

i don't think there were color TVs in the 60s
i don't even think they had 21'' TVs back then

i love TV we have some nice TVs hehe a 40'' Sony Wega, it's not a projection either, 40'' digital flat screen and also a digital 61'' Hitachi HDTV in the basement. The rest aren't as good

my dad likes all the tech. gadgets.... there's like surround sound, Satellite, DVD and all this crazy stuff i don't even know what 1/2 the stuff does we also have this like TiVo type thing, where you can record stuff onto it, and pause live tv, then skip commercials and stuff... that's cool

Gang$tarr = Couch Potato

[ragt20]

hey those sound cool .......what I was tryin to say was, what was considered huge in the 60s?...maybe even 16" was considered to be Huge at that time.....as we allmay remember in the 80s 21" was considered to be huge but now that isn't the case.........get my drift??????:silly2: :silly2:

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:hehehe::hehehe: gang$tarr man you'll never believe what I just found :hehehe:.....yep not only were there colour tvs in the 60's but 21" tvs were also common by then.......as a matter of fact there were colour tvs as early as 1951 :silly2:..... check the following.....:hehehe:

This full page ad announced the new RCA CT-100, an all-electronic, fully compatible color television set. Price: $1,000. Had a 12-1/2 inch viewable screen size. Sales: 75,000 predicted -- less than 5,000 sets actual. Most collectors and historians consider this to be America's first color TV.

In December of 1954, RCA introduced their 21" color TV. Several other manufacturers had already begun to offer 19" sets for sale. Consequently, RCA was pressured to buy back the few CT-100's purchased earlier that year and replace them with the new and improved 21" sets. Dealers cut the remaining CT-100's in stock to $495.00 in order to try and sell them. The warehouses were full of unsold CT-100 sets. RCA donated many of these recalled and unsold sets to colleges, universities and trade schools. Others were sold at HEAVY discounts to RCA employees. Although the number recorded in history books is 5,000 units sold, the common belief (amongst collectors) is that the actual number sold to the public was considerably less.

[ragt20]

LOL! I must be really bored or sad to go and search for all of that just to prove a point in a post!.......
:silly2: :silly2: :hehehe: :hehehe:

[gang$tarr]

Originally posted by ragt20
LOL! I must be really bored or sad to go and search for all of that just to prove a point in a post!.......
:silly2: :silly2: :hehehe: :hehehe:

you must be!

i didn't know they came that early, cause like in all the older based shows and movies they didn't have color TVs... like in the wonder years and Back to the Future those are the first 2 that popped into my head for some reason, lol

anyway $1000 is alot for a 12.5'' TV!!!

[Mrcoilover]

Those were some good lessons to be learned.

[DVSNCYNIKL]

I've passed over this post, never really bothered to read it. After reading through it though, glad I did.