Behaving

[john e. holliday]

This I copied(couldn't get picture saved) from The Australian Thermaleers #5 newsletter sent to me courtesy of Tony Clifford.  Each time I read them I think if I wasn't so old I would move to Australia.

When I was a kid I didn't need an ELF on the shelf to motivate me to behave during Christmas time.
I had a belt on the shelf that motivated me to behave the whole year through!

HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS.

[goozgog]

Hey Doc,

  I can't resist replying to this. 

  Like most of us here, my parents lived through
the great depression and WWII and both were
veterans.When I was told to do something
there was no question about it.
   I don't actually remember being spanked
but there was always the floating threat of
"the belt".
I don't think it damaged my
psyche and it did teach me that there are
standards of behavior.

  I belong to a working man's yacht club and
the behavior of a substantial portion of the
membership is appalling. I regularly find myself
wondering how adults can have such low
personal standards. I suspect that their
parents never owned a "belt".

  When I am with the control line community
I am constantly reminded of the superior
qualities of the participants. Patient, tolerant
and honorable.
   I have to consciously behave myself when
I'm flying.

Cheers! - K.
   

[GallopingGhostler]

I don't actually remember being spanked but there was always the floating threat of "the belt". I don't think it damaged my psyche and it did teach me that there are standards of behavior.

I had my psyche damaged by a belt, now I suffer from respect for authority and my elders. 

[Jim Kraft]

I had the application of the yard stick to the seat of understanding enough. But my Father was a Baptist minister, so I could be good for nothing. I remember in Sunday School the teacher asking me what a lie was. I told her it was a very great help in time of trouble. That was not the right answer.

[john e. holliday]

I was told one time, a lie is not a lie unless you are caught.  My pastor who retired several years ago would say he could tell a story many ways to keep from telling a lie.

[GallopingGhostler]

Having been in positions of project responsibility and high visibility without authority, I got good at saying things that sounded nice and meant nothing.  

After all,

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much with so little for so long, that now we are qualified to do anything with nothing.