Earlier this year at the Faun-Ardèche Classic bicycle race
in France, the leading group of riders went in the wrong direction near the
end. Cyclists were sprinting toward victory when they took the wrong turn at a
roundabout, allowing Romain Grégoire of France to claim the victory.
A friend and his wife went to visit their daughter who was
going to school in Kansas City, Missouri. He got up and went for a run one
morning (i.e. he’s a long-distance runner). He ran and ran and crossed a couple
bridges and made many turns and decided to turn around and go back. He was
lost! He didn’t have his cell phone, no identification, no money, no phone
numbers and no address of their daughter’s place. He had to stop a police
officer. After they determined he wasn’t a fruitcake and after they quit laughing,
they got him back to their daughter’s place. He even ran into a different state.
He was in Kansas City, Kansas.
Another friend is a competitive 5K and 10K runner. He was
was running in a race and his wife was worried as he usually was one of the
winners in his age division, but he didn’t show up at the finish line. Finally,
she asked the race organizers if they could help find him. He took a wrong turn
and was across town still running!
I
told our 17-year old grand daughter that her decisions are just as what I
told her when she was a freshmen in high school, her cumulative grade point
starts now; you gotta start out thinking that way and not mess around at the
beginning. Well, don’t make wrong turns now as they will probably affect you the rest of your life. You don’t get
re-dos; they are part of your cumulative life. Most teenagers can’t understand
that but when you are 50 years old, 65 years old or 80 years old a person we seem to understand that better.
Here is my customer service voice—Encouragement
cost nuttin but can change everything! Our encouragement might keep someone
from making the wrong turn. Let you and I try to encourage someone today.
Have a FUN day my friends unless you have other plans. (-:
erv
MyDeceasedFriendJean said--The sad thing about being a good sport, is you have to lose to prove it.
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