The Law of the Garbage Truck

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One day I hopped into a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by inches. The driver of the other car whipped his head around immediately and started yelling at us. My taxi driver simply smiled and waved at the guy in a friendly manner.
"Why did you do that? That guy almost ruined your car and could have sent us both to the hospital?"
He winked at me and said "This is called the law of the garbage truck".
He explained that people are like garbage trucks. They run around loaded with garbage, full of frustration, anger, disappointment. As their garbage piles up, the need a place to dump it. If you aren't careful, they dump it right on you. Don't take it personally, just smile, wave, and move on. Don't take their garbage and then spread it on at work, school, church, or on the streets. Successful people don't let garbage trucks take over their lives. Life it too short to wake up with regrets.
Love the people who treat you right, & pray for the ones who don't.
As I got out of the taxi, he called after me "have a blessed garbage free day."

Michigan trivia

Alpena is the home of the world's largest cement plant.

Rogers City boasts the world's largest limestone quarry.

Elsie is the home of the world's largest registered Holstein dairy herd.

Colon is home to the world's largest manufacture of magic supplies.

The Upper Michigan Copper Country is the largest commercial deposit of native copper in the world.

The Kellogg Company has made Battle Creek the Cereal Capital of the World. The Kellogg brothers accidentally discovered the process for producing flaked cereal products and sparked the beginning of the dry cereal industry.

The city of Novi was named from its designation as Stagecoach Stop #6 or No.VI.

I can't go...

Sean and a few of his friends are planning a trip to the movies, I tell him he can go but I want to know what parent is going to be there with them. He says he's not sure but it won't be me. I ask him why and he says because his friends think I'm weird. Weird I say, they don't even know me! I told them about you he says. So of course I have to ask "what did you tell them to make them think I'm weird?" "I told them you watch Hannah Montana and you're racist with your M&M's." GEEZ!

Ian's first dance

This was such a positive experience for Ian and for me I just have to share. I've been trying to get Ian to go to a stake dance (with church) for almost a year now, he always says no and I can't dance. The other young men at church have tried to tell him how much fun it is, but he just didn't want anything to do with it. Last Wednesday after scouts the young men and young women (you know what a smile from a girl can do) convinced him he should go.

Saturday afternoon came around and I think nerves got the best of him and once again I'm hearing "I don't want to go". We had a mom to son talk, I told him I understood he was nervous and how everything is scary until you give it a try. I suggested he watch others fast dance and just copy what they did until he figures out his own style. I showed him how beginners slow danced-this was particularly funny because he had to look out the window first to make sure no one would see. I also through out the option of not dancing just "hanging out".

Still not clearly convinced he wanted to be there I took him over to the stake center. I asked him if he wanted me to go in with him, he said "no I can do it". I was so proud of him, I knew he was nervous and neither of us knew if anyone he knew was there yet. At 10:00 I went to pick him up. He was so happy! He talked all the way home (the endless talking he did get from me). He had such a good time, he danced with three girls, he couldn't wait until the next dance. I thought my heart would burst. I am so thankful that he had such a good time and that I was the one to pick him up AND that he shared his feelings with me.

Sean on cooking

Sean has really taken an interested in cooking lately, a fact that makes me pretty happy, it would be nice to have someone in this house that can cook. :-) This afternoon on the way home from church Sean explained to me why he liked cooking:

1. It's like science; you get to experiment
2. It has math; you have to figure out how much to make.
3. You get a reward at the end because you have something good to eat.

Who do you think of?

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