You know it is alway surprising how things work out. The other day I was working in my office and I recieved a phone call informing me that our copier company was on its way. Now normally this in not a big deal but I hadnt place a service call and I was quite upset that someone had placed the call without my knowledge. Anyways the service man never showed up and I went home not thinking two things about it.
Well the next morning, guess who showed up? Yep the service man. He was short, with dark hair, dark tanned skinned very middleastern looking individual. Of course I was curious. So upstairs we went to the copier room, oh by the way I was the one who placed the service call....
As usual I decided to spark up conversation by asking where he was from. Turns out he was from Afghanstan. Wow, well being in the Navy and the military I was then very curious to see how he felt about life there and what we were doing.
I should have prepared myself for a long, long conversation but instead I dealt the question, "So what do you think of the US in your country?" Well, it opened a can of worms that I am still reeling from. However, I am not going to dwell in this blog about that but instead I am going to state what I saw.
For the first time ever I heard a nation that is lost. They have such a one sided view point of alot of things but it is not their culture, it is their religion. I found myself admiring this barely english speaking man not because he had been a through alot but because he was so committed to his faith.
I thought about this later on and simply thought that we, Americans, do not get it. We have finally become that nation that is more concerned about immediate satisfication that we dont care about anything else. It is generally sad to me that we are know as the melting pot of the world and yet we know nothing of our forefathers.
Take a minute today and think how fast you read this blog or how fast you needed to get to work... Or why did it take so long to get your coffee this morning..... I propose that we all need to take sometime and slow down and remember the God that created us.....
Friday, October 26, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Driver License
Driver License---
Now here is a interesting institute: The other day my wife and I went down to the local DMV. We need to get our new state license seeing I am now out of the military. Of course that is always a dreaded event and so we spent the night before running around finding all the correct informational paper work and laid out our best clothes.
That morning we awoke with butterflies in the stomach and pure dread of having to sit in a line with alot of strangers all of whom do not speak a lick of english.
So there we were, we made it past the registration and took our number. Now how exactly does that work? We were second in line and forty five minutes we finally get called up. C405... What? So we are now standing in front of a nice asian lady who by the way does not speak english very well. Again I say interesting.
She looks at my military ID and goes "this is not a valid ID.." WHAT? Excuse me I just spent four years of my life in the middle east fighting with good men and women, just to hear you say my military ID is not valid. Okay so now the blood pressure is up.
She then turns to my wife and says do you have a passport? A PASSPORT??? Uhm, this is America right? We are not leaving the country as far as I know. My wife says, No I dont have a passport. Of couse this confuses the nice lady and she spends the next five minutes trying to understand why we dont have a passport. My question was did she have a passport?
How is it that she is, who seems to have just arrived in the U.S., is currently asking me an American born citzen if I have a passport? Okay so maybe I am overacting.
So at this point I am fed up and in typically military fashion, breath a few words under my breath, leave my wife standing there and race back home to get the proper Identification. Of course the story would not be complete if I didnt tell you that after I found the proper identification, I jumped in my car and found that the battery in my car had died..........
To make the story complete, I must tell you that several days later after we found the proper Identification we return. Of course I handed them my Military Id and surprise, surprise, it turns out that it is the proper ID and that the nice little lady didnt know that....I am not bitter though..
Now here is a interesting institute: The other day my wife and I went down to the local DMV. We need to get our new state license seeing I am now out of the military. Of course that is always a dreaded event and so we spent the night before running around finding all the correct informational paper work and laid out our best clothes.
That morning we awoke with butterflies in the stomach and pure dread of having to sit in a line with alot of strangers all of whom do not speak a lick of english.
So there we were, we made it past the registration and took our number. Now how exactly does that work? We were second in line and forty five minutes we finally get called up. C405... What? So we are now standing in front of a nice asian lady who by the way does not speak english very well. Again I say interesting.
She looks at my military ID and goes "this is not a valid ID.." WHAT? Excuse me I just spent four years of my life in the middle east fighting with good men and women, just to hear you say my military ID is not valid. Okay so now the blood pressure is up.
She then turns to my wife and says do you have a passport? A PASSPORT??? Uhm, this is America right? We are not leaving the country as far as I know. My wife says, No I dont have a passport. Of couse this confuses the nice lady and she spends the next five minutes trying to understand why we dont have a passport. My question was did she have a passport?
How is it that she is, who seems to have just arrived in the U.S., is currently asking me an American born citzen if I have a passport? Okay so maybe I am overacting.
So at this point I am fed up and in typically military fashion, breath a few words under my breath, leave my wife standing there and race back home to get the proper Identification. Of course the story would not be complete if I didnt tell you that after I found the proper identification, I jumped in my car and found that the battery in my car had died..........
To make the story complete, I must tell you that several days later after we found the proper Identification we return. Of course I handed them my Military Id and surprise, surprise, it turns out that it is the proper ID and that the nice little lady didnt know that....I am not bitter though..
The day of Mass Transportation
Mass Transportation--
I know from the minute I write this there will be those out there who might be angry but take a minute and think about this. As I was driving home in the wonderful DC traffic, I found myself stuck behind a large bus for transportation. Now normally this is not a big deal seeing I do live in a big Metro city and well hey lets save that atmosphere!! However when one is in a hurry to get home and well lets be honest that is everyday, it amazes me that these buses just stop wherever they feel like it. I know that there are stops but come on, does it really take three minutes to load and offload, I mean get your butt up and off the bus, people....
Did I say save the atmosphere?? How is mass transporation solving that?? I ask this because as I am sitting there the bus moves and great big cloud of fumes roll out the back....Interesting. So lets take our cars and make them eco friendly but those busses that are suppose to provide less cars on the road are puffing out huge amounts of carbon dioxide?
Then there is the whole idea of, well this provides a way around for those who dont have a drives license. GET A FREAKIN drivers license.... Its not that hard...But then sitting in the DMV is like entering fort knox without a clearance... Speaking of which, did you know that you should have a passport for this??? I didnt know that. What country is this??? More on that later....
Anyways, I find it irritating that all the global people, whom just reported today that belching mooses are the reason for the atmosphere being destroyed, can yell and scream about a clean environment and yet when you really look at it, there is no real way of cleaning it. So here is to those that ride on a bus every morning, thank you for the smoke screen! I just wanted to get home to pee.
I know from the minute I write this there will be those out there who might be angry but take a minute and think about this. As I was driving home in the wonderful DC traffic, I found myself stuck behind a large bus for transportation. Now normally this is not a big deal seeing I do live in a big Metro city and well hey lets save that atmosphere!! However when one is in a hurry to get home and well lets be honest that is everyday, it amazes me that these buses just stop wherever they feel like it. I know that there are stops but come on, does it really take three minutes to load and offload, I mean get your butt up and off the bus, people....
Did I say save the atmosphere?? How is mass transporation solving that?? I ask this because as I am sitting there the bus moves and great big cloud of fumes roll out the back....Interesting. So lets take our cars and make them eco friendly but those busses that are suppose to provide less cars on the road are puffing out huge amounts of carbon dioxide?
Then there is the whole idea of, well this provides a way around for those who dont have a drives license. GET A FREAKIN drivers license.... Its not that hard...But then sitting in the DMV is like entering fort knox without a clearance... Speaking of which, did you know that you should have a passport for this??? I didnt know that. What country is this??? More on that later....
Anyways, I find it irritating that all the global people, whom just reported today that belching mooses are the reason for the atmosphere being destroyed, can yell and scream about a clean environment and yet when you really look at it, there is no real way of cleaning it. So here is to those that ride on a bus every morning, thank you for the smoke screen! I just wanted to get home to pee.
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