(click to see the commercial-Fast relief for hundreds of years of pain.)
My friends are twisted enough to send me stuff like this in email and I’m sick enough to put it on the web for all to see.
The stuff this actress is saying sounds funny but I can tell you from experience that she didn’t have to write those jokes because these questions are real. While this commercial is down right hilarious it also shows just how prevalent stupidity is.
My sophomore year my English teacher asked me if black people use shampoo and what kind of toothpaste we use. She was asking me this as we drove to her home. I was the newest foster child in her home. Strangely enough her house was the safest place I’ve ever been in my life. I’m grateful for the time I had there despite the initial ignorance. That was 1987 which was the second year the high school was completely integrated.
I probably think of that teacher every day. I certainly think of her when I hear the song Fire & Rain because she use to sing it in the morning. And I think of her whenever I see a blueberry muffin because she use to make them all the time for breakfast. I’ve gotten to talk to her on and off through the years and truthfully I smile most of the time when I think of her. She is one of the reasons I decided to become a foster parent. When I took care of the three boys I knew they would one day be able to say that there was at least one home where they went to bed well fed, warm and without cause for fear. My sophomore English teacher did that for me and I will be forever grateful. She may have asked stupid questions in the beginning and gave me tension headaches but in the end she gave me the best home I’ve ever had. I’m thankful to her for that.
Austin
Ps. I use Crest and Suave
Oh, I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain
I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that Id see you again….
This song was also in the movie Running On empty staring Joaquin Phoenix’s older brother River Phoenix.
austin, i just love your posts. i love your honesty, your ability to see thru the duck blinds to the heart of things, and therefor understand whats really there.
i also was really blessed with the comment you left on beautifuldreamer’s latest post. honesty makes the heart able to see. im so glad, with all that abuse you took as a child, that you never became bitter or jaded. angry isnt bitter. bitter is confining and blinding. anger is just…angry. you and beautifuldreamer are real pleasures to my heart.
kïrstin♪
oh you so funnny!!
the beau is 40. he persued me. hee hee.
kïrstin
Austin, what a great post!!! And a great memory!
you never stop amazing us, each and every time we visit we find new posts that are touching or revealing of your past or hopeful of yours and our future. by the way what was wrong with the sausage and gravy biscuits?
peace and blessings
keepers
What a neat memory. I love that song also , now I have it in my head. NOt a bad song to hear….. Oh, I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain
I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that Id see you again………….
Thank you for sharing!
At first I thought “My glory, how ignorant is this woman?” (the English teacher!) But then I saw her kindness through the words you used to describe her.
I was horrified by the racial slurs being slung at a blog I was visiting the other day. This is supposed to be a “fun” blog about that goofy Flavor of Love show. One commentator, ostensibly a black woman, called a latina commentator a “hispanic bitch.” Another black commentator was upset to discover that one of the blog’s members was white. All I could do was wonder how the hell we’re ever going to come together in this world with so much hate still going on over skin color.
And she probably thinks of you and smiles every day, too. Sounds like she may have learned a lot that day– teachers often learn from their students, parents from their children. We educate tolerance and respect one person at a time.