Posted on 06/27/2012 8:06:52 AM PDT by Albion Wilde
An unemployed Brooklyn man missed a job interview Tuesday for the best of reasons: He was saving the life of a 9-month-old boy who was blown into the path of an oncoming subway train by a gust of high wind.
Like a superhero without a cape, Delroy Simmonds jumped onto the elevated tracks and hoisted the bleeding child — still strapped into his stroller — to the safety of the platform as the J train bore down on them.
The father of two then shrugged off his courageous, selfless act.
“Everybody is making me out to be some sort of superhero,” the father of two told the Daily News on Tuesday night. “I’m just a normal person. Anybody in that situation should have done what I did”...
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
You really have it together! More reasons that I like you....
Have you ever noticed that people who can’t tell which end is up feel qualified to tell other people how to conduct their lives lol?!
And I like you too!
That's a good story! Reminds me of how I cured myself of giving other drivers the finger in the city where I lived: I opened my own business.
It’s a small world.
In George Washington's "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior", one of the timeless things he said in it was: "...Let thy ceremonies in courtesie be proper to the dignity of his place with whom thou conversest for it is absurd to act the same with a clown and a prince..."
That covers a lot of area, including overdressing for the occasion!
That’s a great quote!
You are spot on...appropriate is the word.
Some people (including some on this thread) think it is wrong to judge someone on their appearance.
Personally, I don’t care what people stick in their face or tattoo on the surface of it. If I walk down the street and they don’t bother me, it isn’t my business.
But if I am hiring someone to do a job, especially if they have to interact with anyone in or out of the company, I am going to pay close attention to their appearance.
And if someone comes to interview for a job with things that look like big wooden curtain rod rings in his ears, I won’t hire him. That tells me his ear decorations are more important to him than any job.
Check out this link:
http://www.knowledgehouse.info/GeorgeWashingtonRulesofCivility.pdf
He wrote this as a teenager trying to better himself, writing in his own words admonitions and advice he heard from others and read in books.
Some of it is sound advice today, some of it is quaint and sweet, and some of it I find to be simply hilarious! I like the this one from the future Father of The Country:
“...Shift not yourself in the sight of others nor gnaw your nails...”
Shift not yourself? Does that mean what I think it does? Or:
“...Run not in the streets, neither go too slowly nor with mouth open go not shaking your arms kick not the earth with your feet, go not upon the toes, nor in a dancing fashion...”
Somehow, I cannot imagine George Washington doing any of these things...:)
I am familiar with this list of Washington's because I got into a spat with my daughter's 2nd grade teacher years ago in Berkeley, CA. In those days, the kids still got out of school for Washington's Birthday. My 2nd grader brought home a work sheet, with a pictuor to color, that said that (in essence) "George Washington was ill educated and couldn't spell."
I hit the ceiling. Since school was out the next day, I took my kids to the local Book Shoppe and found reading materials about Washington. The following day I marched up to school and demanded that the teacher apologize for the work sheet. She, of course, was snippy.
I pointed out that there was no standardized spelling rubric in Washington's day (to say nothing of the fact that the calligraphy of the day made the letter S look like our letter F). Her parting words to me were something about how she was glad that she had gotten me "to read a book!" We moved to a new school district about 6 months later.
That Commie sympathizer teacher (remember, this was Berkeley, and she proved that later) opened Pandora's Box with that taunt, and I have battled public schools across the country when they were in error ever since. Now my kids have followed suit with the grandkids' schools.
Great story. Thanks for fighting the good fight...ugh. Berkeley. I guess that says it all, but as you state, it isn’t limited to there.
He’s been hired at JFK!
(I’m not being sarcastic with the exclamation point;it’s meant as an “I’m happy for him)
He sure would.
He was hired as a maintenance worker at JFK.
He’ll be working for JFK Int’l as a maintenance worker.
You only need the "to be" in there if you use fixed. If you use the sentence with the proper southern usage "to be" doesn't need to be:) in there. Proper sentence:"The car needs fixin'".
You only need the "to be" in there if you use fixed. If you use the sentence with the proper southern usage "to be" doesn't need to be:) in there. Proper sentence:"The car needs fixin'".
Understood. In these-here parts, the "normal" use would be "...fixed..." as momma'n'them would say...
I still need an interpreter at times to understand some here and I love it!
Funny, isn't it, how the latter always seems to get placed in these type of jobs but bonafide U.S. citizens have a struggle?
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