Like the time I bought some peaches. I told my wife to go inside to pay for them and I'd put them in the car. She did, but when I happened to look as the sales slip, it was for two 1/2 bushels rather than 2 bushels! I asked and she said she told the lady 2 bushels... Poor people at the store could hardly believe when I showed up to pay what we still owed. She said she knew it happens but I was the first honest customer for something like this.
Aim low, eat dirt; aim high, soar with the eagles. Once you are over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
I’ve been in Texas since last Friday and have heard a couple that are great. “Down where I live, it’s so flat I can watch my dog run away for two weeks”
The most important missionary journey a person can make is to walk next door. If you have not charity in your heart, you have the worse kind of heart trouble. Ain’t no man that can avoid being born average, but ain’t nobody got to be common. Satchel Paige
From my old foreman when I was working construction in college: "What, you looking for sympathy? That's halfway between chit and syphilis in my dictionary." What my Mom always used to tell us as kids, when we gave the universal excuse of all my friends are doing it. "If all of your friends took a long walk off a short pier, would you do it too?"
all in context. I get after my pops about this..... he’s famous for calling it good enough. But on the flip side we used to have a german tech who would use a micrometer on things that just needed to be eyeballed. Doesn’t need to be perfect! Sometimes a rough cut is just that, and it will be discarded in 30 minutes.
