Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: Jesus wept.....

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Jesus wept.....

Local charity effort (Barnstormers Baseball) is advertising they are collecting things for the needy. Packaged food, (NEW) clothes items, and something else.... toiletries?

Wait.... NEW clothes only? I'm going with a hearty %$#@ you on that one.

I GREW UP wearing used clothing. My whole family swapped outgrown clothes like it was their job. Everyone I knew but 'Rich Kids' wore used stuff, and thrift shops were the *first* choice when we needed something.

My kids wore used clothes, even when they didn't know it. Lord knows their mama never heard of a dollar she didn't want to spend before seeing it, but even she would do used clothes for fast growing kids.

As an adult, I bought worn work uniforms at the flea market. Shirts were .25 cents and pants were $1.25. Hell yes, gimme EVERYTHING you have in my size! As a mechanic I tore that stuff UP. There were days I was a mechanic working on trucks, and there were days I was an 'explosive technician' working on trucks. Whatev.

Now I'm told if I want to give to needy people it has to be NEW clothes?

Not only no... but Barnstormers stadium will never see a dollar from this old man.

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"