From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 09:25:31 MDT
>From: Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com>
>For example, when I was 30, my manager at the time gave me a short
>story to read. It was about a kid who went to play with his
>friends instead of mowing the yard as his father had asked him to.
>Upon the kid's return, the father made him mow the yard using
>scissors. The kid was initially optimistic and thought he could do
>it in a day and then again go play with his friends. Of course the
>job took all summer.
>Other than as an example of fascist oppression, or a supreme waste
>of time, I never got the point of this story. Which explains why
>I've been self-employed for the last 7 years.
The moral of the story is that if you disobey those in authority,
you will be punished.
I could write volumes about this.
When I was a kid I tended to be "antsy" in class, no doubt today
they'd drug me with Ritilan. I spent far more time then Bart
Simpson ever dreamed of standing in front of blackboards writing
rows of inanne dribble, doing it while holding all my books with
the other arm was another favorite petty torture.
The only thing it ever taught me was stoicism, (and to hate
authority, Thanks!) and to disassociate my thinking from the task
at hand, in other words, making the problem worse.
I had the good fortune to have a teacher who realized the real
problem, that I was bored stiff. So we worked out a deal, when I
completed class work I could read her college science texts (she'd
assign homework from them.) I finish everything in an hour or so,
and could spend most (I did sometimes have to participate) of the
rest of the day reading.
Bliss.
And by the way I bet I'm not the only kid who ever had to cut the
grass in the dark.
Brian
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