The Respect of Disrespect

You can learn a lot about being respectful from those who are disrespectful. In that you learn how not to be or how to improve of what not to be. Respect comes from humility living with very little but dreaming about much more.

So I am learning how to show respect to the disrespectful from all kinds of people like the guy living in the room next to me. How to describe him? A young guy visually he keeps himself well groomed nicely dressed every time I see him he wears a drives cap. I only had three interactions with him one a argument (that I will go into later) a conversation about what we each do for a living. Than in a passing hello from time to time. That is as much as I know about him in interactions.

From what little I know he said he is germaphobe I really don't know what to think of that. Because he is living with many other people in a build where he has to share a bath room. I just can't rap my mind around it.

In the mornings he spend about a hour and half in the bath room I assume he he is grooming himself that hole time. But when it come time that he happens to be done and I had just gotten up to use the bathroom I see it is wet from top to bottom. I quote Forest Gump "that all I have to say about that."

All my interactions with him have been yelling matches when I ask him to do something so simple he give me attitude and throws complaint of all the things of disrespect he does back at me and then one thing lead to another and we are yelling at one another.

I should be better than that even when I try to find solutions for us to get along. So I must respect his disrespect.    

Johnny Carson

I think back to my influences of comedy in my life was Johnny Carson and as a kid I was sent to bed just half way into the news. But after minute I would sneak out of my room down the hall avoiding and squeaks in the floor (after doing this so many time you learn where these where) I would crawl up to back of my dad's recliner and lay there between the chair and stair banister. Being a kid some of the jokes just went over my head but what drawn me to it was being able to have every ones attention.

The one thing you don't see with these kinds of talk show that is never done that Johnny did you never see is a guest host. There was time where Johnny would take a four day weekend and invite some one to come on to host the show Joey Bishop (177 times, mostly in the 1960s), Joan Rivers (93, during the 1970s and 1980s), John Davidson (87), Bob Newhart (87), David Brenner (70), McLean Stevenson (58), Jerry Lewis (52, mostly in the 1960s), David Letterman (51) and one time Diana Ross.  You don't see that any more it is all centered around the one host nothing more.

Banana and Lemons

My first time doing stand up comedy was in a restraint in Silver Spring MD. It was open mic night so what the means your doing your act to other wannabe comedians and all they are thinking about is their set. Not a laugh. It is like a banana trying to convince lemons "I am one of you I'm yellow too!"

Last in line, First in line

It was in kindergarten I learned about standing in line. As a kid in school we stood in line to go to lunch, to go to recess, and at the end of the day to get on the bus. For any kid that age the most important place in line was the first place in line. Every one wanted to be first in line and would fight for it.
Even when you got to be first in line you really weren't first the person that was first was always the teacher. So right there at the front of the line you have a obstructed view and being 3 foot nothing that obstructions was the teachers butt.
So I figured the best place in line was at the end of the line. You didn't have to fight for it because know one wanted it. You had a better view of what was ahead of you, no one behind you pushing you or stepping on the back of your heel. You are able to make your own pace life was great at the back of the line. Than the next thing you know every one wanted to be at the back of the line.

I learned it is not where you are in line that is important it is when you understand your place in line is important to you.     

Drive In Movies

In Davenport Iowa where I grew up there was a drive in move called the Oasis Drive-in. I remember going there only once as a kid I think we saw Disney's "The Apple Dumpling Gang". But as a teen I remember sneaking out of the house night and sneaking into the drive-in there was there was a few ways in with out paying one was to hid in the back of a car. Or sneak from the back of one of the near by hotels one way was more obvious than the other. But mine was near a creek bead where slip under the fence and right there was a open space where I sat next to a speaker. I fondly remember seeing Friday The 13th, Footloose, Caddyshack, 48 Hours.

Religion

There is some thing you have to understand about religion. Religion was invention of man to control man and to exclude man at the same time. Those who are proclaimed as the founder of some of the main religions today where just guys trying to make a better life for them selves and to try to find a true connection with GOD.
It was the followers of these spiritual men who took literal every thing they said and used it for their own ambitions. Instead letting it into their soul and find their own connection to GOD. But they would rather force what they believe on every one and make you feel guilty for not feeling the same they force gilt and judge you for it. Witch they have no right to do because they too are flawed.

This is not to put down any one who fallows any religious faith, I have the deepest respect for those who have respect who walk their own path.

This is my view and if any one comes to you preaching my opinions and saying that God one day took me up never to be seen again. It is not true what might be true is that I am shriveled old man sitting in corner waiting for his chocolate pudding in a nursing home. I could also be on some ones mantel in a urn or I could be the dust in the wind.

So just live your life.
                      Be good.
                               Be positive.

And love your self so others can love you.
          

Food Stamps

There was a time I think it might have been during high school. We where on food stamps, and it was not like it is today on the card they give you. It came in a pack printed like money but only on one side. Then it was called the new money. 

What I remember about food stamps is when I was trapped across town at the mall I could get back home with one food stamp. 

You go to the store buy 25 cent pack of gum and the change left over got you him on the bus.

Those where humbling times it is to bad kids today can't experience what those us experance do in the 80's.