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You're No Longer A Kid When
You're No Longer A Kid When...
- Driving a car doesn't always sound like fun.
- You have friends who have kids.
- You are taller than the slide at the McDonald's playland.
- Your parents' jokes are now funny.
- Naps are good.
- When things go wrong, you can't just yell, "Do-over!"
- You WANT clothes for Christmas.
- You look in the surveillance camera monitor at the convenience store, wonder who that guy is standing at the counter with the bald spot, and then realize it is a shot of you from behind.
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IRISH PROVERBS
A boys best friend is his mother and there's no
spancel stronger than her apron string.
A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe.
A handstaff of holly, a buailtin of hazel,a single
sheaf and a clean floor.
A king;s son is not nobler than his food.
A live dog is better than a dead lion.
A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in
one swig.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
A poem ought to be well made at first, for there is
many a one to spoil it afterwards.
A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood.
If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new
bonnet.
If you have one pair of good soles its better than two
pairs of good uppers.
If you lie down with dogs you'll rise with fleas.
If you put a silk dress on a goat he is a goat still.
In winter the milk goes to the cow's horns.
It s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are
leaking.
It's as hard to see a woman crying as it is to see a
barefooted duck.
It's beter than the loan you couldn't get.
It's better than it's want.
It's difficult to choose between two blind goats.
Take gifts with a sigh most men give to be paid.
The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to
keep money in his purse.
The end of a feast is better than the beginning of a
fight.
The fox never found a better messenger than himself.
The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely
buried.
The longest road out is the shortest road home.
The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
The one who waits the fine day, will get the fine day.
The one who waits the fine day, will get the fine day.
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Better Trainer
A fellow computer programmer for a consulting group had designed some software for one of our largest accounts. He asked my help in putting it into operation.
At first, he handled most of the work. Eventually, though, he asked me to help with the last phase of the training. When I sat down with one woman and told her I would be showing her how to make changes to the files, she sighed with relief. "I'm so glad you're teaching me instead of him."
Surprised, I said that my colleague was far more experienced than I was.
"Yes," she said, "but I feel much more comfortable with you. I get nervous around really smart people."