Crap bro. If all she does is yell ya might wanna ignore her phone calls.
She's under a lot of stress and I cut her some slack. If that was her usual performance, we wouldn't be friends.
@ GW.....you can't win those conversations.....especially with a woman.
It is hard when there isn't agreement on the validity of the facts, or when the facts don't really matter, just the latest popular revelation on CNN or Oprah.
@pute now days ppl think that the very thing ppl work for is an entitlement...and that's another source of "the problem" bc if I work all my life, become disabled and get say Social security/ disability... some would say I'm on the govt tit not knowing how I came to be.
Believing is seeing! Looking at it from the perspective of someone believing that "Now days ppl think", I can see how you came to see things that way.
From my perspective as a mixed race American from poor white trash, that includes Native American, East Asian, and Nigerian, there are some people that feel the way you perceive they do, but to say people in general feel that way is hyperbole at best.
To put it in perspective, there are people that believe the Social Security that we all payed into is an entitlement. George Carlin put it perfectly when he noted that by definition half the population has below average intelligence and Dr Abraham Maslow when he observed that there is pathology in the populous. There will always be some miscreants.
Our perspective dictates how we respond to input, whether it is appropriate or not. It is easier to respond appropriately if we "walk around the elephant" and note how its image changes from different perspectives, so as to better understand how one person sees a smiling face and the same time other sees an a**hole.
People also respond to what they observed in our actions and most often in kind to how we respond to them.
At this moment in time, I perceive that there not systemic racism or bigotry, but a concerted effort to separate us by races and social class. The violent clashes and wanton destruction aren't fixing any problems, they are creating more anger and distrust, besides being stirred up and promoted by special interest groups trying to take over.
The last ten years I worked, I had to take many pee tests to secure employment. The people sucking up my tax dollars for free didn't have to.
As middle management I didn't have to take regular pee tests, just every time I was hired, promoted, changed my insurance, or had an industrial accident. I had no accidents, and increased my insurance only once so that limited me to four tests over the last 20 years before retirement.
