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[olinda]

when you were 10 years old ,shr drove you all day from soccer to gymnastic to one birth day party after another.
you thanked her by jumping out of the car and looking back.

when you were 11 years old,she took you and your friends to the movies.
you thanked by asking to siting a diffrent row.

when you were 12 years old,she warned you not to watch certain tv show.
you thanked her by waitting until she left the house.

when you were 13 years old,she suggested a haircut.
you thankedher by telling her she had no taste.

when you were 14 years old,she paid for a month away at summer camp.
you thanked her by forgetting to write a single letter.

when you were 15 years old,she came home from work,looking for a hug.
you thanked her by having your bedroom door locked.

[olinda]

when you were 16 years old,she taught you how to drive her car.
you thanked her by taking it every chance you could.

when you were 17 years old,she was expecting an important call
you thanked her by being on the phone all night.

when you were 18 years old,she ried at your high school graduation.
you thanked her by staying out partying until dawn.

when you were 19 years old,she paid for your olleg tuitian,drove you to ampus arried your bags.
you thanked her by saying good-bye out side the dorm so you wouldn,t be embarrased in front of your friends.

when you were 20 years old,she asked whether you were seeing anyone.
you thanked her by saying,it,s none of your business .

[olinda]

when you were 21 years old,she suggested certain careers for your future .
you thanked her by saying ,i don,t want to be like you.

when you were 22 years old,she hugged you at your college graduation.
you thanked her by asking whether she ccould pay for a trip to Europe.

when you were 23 years old,she gae you furniture for your first apartment.
you thanked her by telling your friends it was ugly.

when you were 24 years old,she met your financee and asked about your plans for the future.
you thanked her by glaring and growling Muuhh-ther,pleas!

when you were 25 years old ,she helped to pay for your wedding,and she ccried and told you how deeply she loved you.
you thanked her by moving half way across the country.

[olinda]

when you were 30 years old,she called with some advice on the baby.
you thanked her by telling her Things are diffrent now.

when you were 40 years old ,she called to remind you of a relative's birthday .
you thanked her by saying you were "really bussy" right now.

when you were 50years old,she fell ill and needed you to take care of her.
you thanked her by reading about the burden parents become to their children.


and then one day,she quietly died and ever thing you never.

did came crashing down like thunder on your HEART.

if she still around,never forget to love her more than ever.

and if she,s not,remember her un conditional love and pass it on --------always remember to love thy mother because you only have one mother in your life time!!!!!!!!

[olinda]

------------------------------------------------------------------------- PERSONAL PERCEPTION

Different people have different perception. One man's meat could be another man's poison. A couple bought a donkey from the market. On the way home, a boy commented, "Very stupid. Why neither of them ride on the donkey? "Upon hearing that, the husband let the wife ride on the donkey. He walked besides them. Later, an old man saw it and commented, "The husband is the head of family. How can the wife ride on the donkey while the husband is on foot?" Hearing this, the wife quickly got down and let the husband ride on the donkey.

Further on the way home, they met an old Lady. She commented, "How can the man ride on the donkey but let the wife walk. He is no gentleman."
The husband thus quickly asked the wife to join him on the donkey. Then, they met a young man. He commented, "Poor donkey, how can you hold up the weight of two persons. They are cruel to you." Hearing that, the husband and wife immediately climbed down from the donkey and carried it on their shoulders.

It seems to be the only choice left. Later, on a nar row bridge, the donkey was frightened and struggled. They lost their balance and fell into the river. You can never have everyone praise you, nor will everyone condemn you. Never in the past, not at present, and never will be in the future.

Thus, do not be too bothered by others words if our conscience is clear..

[olinda]

BE PATIENT

This is a true story which happened in the States. A man came out of his home to admire his new truck. To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint of the truck. The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into pulp as punishment. When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital.

Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy's hands. When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, "Daddy, I'm sorry about your truck." Then he asked, "but when are my fingers going to grow back?" The father went home & committed suicide.

Think about this story the next time someone steps on your feet or u wish to take revenge. Think first before u lose your patience with someone u love. Trucks can be repaired.. Broken bones & hurt feelings often can't. Too often we fail to recognize the difference between the person and the performance. We forget that forgiveness is greater than revenge. People make mistakes. We are allowed to make mistakes. But the actions we take while in a rage will haunt us forever.

[olinda]

Few Definitions School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich. Nurse: A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills. Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters. Divorce: Future tense of Marriage.Tears : The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either" Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present. Compromise : The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece. Dictionary : A place where success comes before work. Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on. Father : A banker provided by nature.Criminal: A guy no different from the rest....except that he got caught. Boss : Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early. Politician : One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after. Doctor : A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.Classic : Books, which people praise, but do not read. Smile : A curve that can set a lot of things straight. Office : A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life. Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth. Etc ..: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do. Committee : Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.Experience : The name men give to their mistakes. Atom Bomb : An invention to end all inventions. Philosopher : A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead

[olinda]

Read and identify own personal irritant

1. I’m driving and she’s irritated at the car in front, she screams and shouts and leans over to press the hooter. One time it was this old bullet driving at 40km/h and it gave him such a fright he got out in the middle of the road ready to let me have it.

2. She forgets to lock her car at night or leaves the sunroof open, so I have to go out in the cold to check it every time she remembers in the middle of the night.

3. My girlfriend never checks her blind spots, hardly ever indicates and is a complete law unto herself when interpreting road signs.

4. She wants to be the navigator but she gets us lost every single time we go away on a long-distance drive.

5. She gets grumpy when I hoot or shout (or pull zap signs in extreme cases) at drivers acting like wankers on the road. It is important (to me) that I be allowed to act like a school prefect on the road.

6. She never offers to drive, ever.

7. After she drives my car I have to do the full lotus to get into the seat that is now two inches from the windscreen and the rear view mirror points to the back seat.

8. She falls asleep on the way back from the Magaliesberg and wakes up just as we’re arriving back at home after a five-hour drive in holiday traffic. She’s now all perky, wants to play and can’t understand why I’m tired and irritable.

At a restaurant I can’t stand it when…

• 9. We’re offered the wine list at a restaurant, she leaves the choice of wine up to me, but as I’m about to order she steals the wine list and makes the decision.
  
  
• 10. My wife is a local ‘personality’ and every time we go to
  a restaurant for an intimate, romantic evening she spends about an hour table-hopping and air-kissing while I sit there like a lemon.
  

[olinda]

• 11. My babe can never make up her mind at a restaurant so I make a suggestion. She takes it and then when the food arrives her food always looks more palatable than mine.
  
  
• 12. We go to an incredibly expensive restaurant and she orders the most expensive thing on the menu – which is fine –then she has one or two forkfuls and says she’s no longer hungry.
  
  
• 13. I ask if she wants a bottle of wine. She says ‘yes’ enthusiastically but only takes about three sips while I chug back the rest. Then she complains that I’m completely plastered.

14. You’re trying to watch the golf and she insists on telling you about the latest gossip at work with all the actions. Yet when the TV is off she’s as silent as a lamb.

15. The schmaltzy, pathetic and predictable romantic videos she always chooses and then, to add insult to injury, how she challenges me to watch them I thought you were a new-age man?”

16. I hate the way she tries to justify that arty movies or romances are better than skop, skiet and donder.

17. Why is it that I’m the one who pays for the DSTV, yet whenever I want to relax in front of the Discovery Channel, she’s busy watching Carlton Food Network?

18. We go to the movies, I ask her if she wants popcorn, she doesn’t – then eats all my popcorn during the movie and complains that we should have got a bigger box.

19. She cries during Isidingo!

20. I hate how she doesn’t appreciate any sport and still can’t differentiate one-day cricket from test match cricket or Rugby League from Rugby Union.

[olinda]

21. She has to suddenly start tidying up the lounge table, stands directly in front of me, just when the final over of a cricket match, or a penalty shoot-out in soccer, or a scrum right on the try-line in rugby, is taking place.

22. My babe insists on having burglar bars on every door, window and other orifice and then walks into the house leaving the keys hanging in the front door.

23. She insists on buying two of everything, just in case. Our cupboards look like a Makro warehouse.

24. She’s always in such a rush that she forgets to put the answering machine on when she leaves.

25. She turns over and says “Just another five minutes” and then gets into a flat spin when she’s late for work.

26. She loves to ‘tidy’ the house while I’m away on business, which, loosely translated, means throwing out everything she doesn’t like of mine ie. my old Springbok match programmes.

27. Every time I go out – even just to get the paper, she feels compelled to re-arrange the flat and then she gets irritated when I can’t find the baby’s socks. I spend my life in a perpetual state of not knowing where anything is.

28. She never bothers to put the CD back in the conveniently positioned CD cover, she’d much rather put it face-down on the other ones she’s just listened to, leaving me to sort it out later. At which point she will trill, “Why are you always fiddling with your CDs?”

29. She has a problem with knocking things over (or should that be doesn’t have a problem with knocking things over) – which is fine – except that she still balances her mug on her knee while reading, puts a glass on the floor right next to the couch, puts 55 percent of the plate on the table edge etc.

30. She insists on wearing her mother’s old ‘passion-killer’ flannel pyjamas despite my assurances that I’ll ‘keep her warm’ in bed.