You Can Learn A Lot By Reading A Gate

Gate

Sometimes what you need is a good gate. 

The text on the is very famous gate reads:

Everything You Know is Wrong

In the service of God one can learn three things from a child and seven from a thief. 

From a child one can learn 

1. always be happy 
2. never to sit idle 
3. and cry for everything one wants. 

From a thief you should learn 

1.  to work at night 
2.  if one cannot gain it in one night to try again the next night
3. to love one's co-workers just as thieves love each other 
4.  to be willing to risk one's life even for a little thing
5.  not to attach too much value to things even though you've risked your life for them just as a thief will resell a stolen article for a fraction of its worth 
6. to withstand all kinds of beatings and tortures but to remain what you are and 
7. to believe that your work is worthwhile and not be willing to change it.

Anybody want to guess who's gate this is??? 

Sometimes Sandbaggers Win

In a Demolition Derby, sandbagging is avoiding contact with other cars and refusing to be aggressive. They may pretend to have mechanical problems until the last two or three cars are running then their car will start running just fine and they become more aggressive.

 A sandbagger is the low-life of the derby. Nobody likes a sandbagger because they don't really play fair. If you have good officials and judges, they will be disqualified (get their stick broken) but if not, sometimes the sandbagger wins. Its disturbing when that happens because somewhere deep inside all of us, we want things to be fair. 

Life itself isn't very fair so maybe that's why we want our games to be. Maybe that's why we scream and shout and loose our voices when the officials fail to keep things on the up and up.

You guessed it, we went to the demolition derby at the county fair last night. It wasn't the best derby I've seen but it was fun to hang with the family doing a typical redneck thing for a while. Besides, the lemonade was fantastic. The lemonade and the horses are always worth the trip to the fair for me.

Maybe there is something to that... when sandbaggers win and life isn't fair, look for the small pleasures because those are really the moments that matter.