I was reminded today about a lesson plan I was learning from another teacher before coming down with this.
She was teaching the guys about perspectives.
I thought of that lesson plan today when one of the friends who comes to help came into the house and said smells like someone burned the toast.
Another friend had stopped by and said, what kind of toast is that...it smells really good.
My perspective on it was....wish I could eat that toast but know i have to lie here for a while longer until I am strong enough to eat breakfast.
In the meantime, I am enjoying the smell of the gluten free pecan/raisin/sweetened with agave toast.
By the way. It is not burnt.
Another example of perspectives was from when I worked at the county jail.
I worked in the fish bowl where we booked them.
Perspectives get pretty negative around there with law enforcement.
One of the clerks was drinking a rootbeer bottle. Can't recall the brand but before lyme I use to drink it myself. Great tasting rootbeer henry something I think.
Well, one of the sargents or whatever title he had...never could get those titles right
Wrote the clerk up for drinking beer on the job.
His perspective was it was a beer bottle and we all were lying when we told him it was a root beer bottle that he saw her drinking.
Kind of reminds you of the mindset of some of the docs in the medical field in regards to lyme disease.
And we think we have trouble with our brains at times....well....most of the time. Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
Kam, IF you e-mail yourself over,,we can 'share' a beer (root-beer that is). I can even fork up 'two' straws,,,,and I can even COUNT that far!!
Nice caffine free root-beer. Doesnt taste like the OLD root-beer but maybe I am just TOO old!!
Either that or we can 'bathe' it over the ice cream in the glass and make it "FLOAT"!!!!
Anybody KNOW why root-beer is NOT the same taste,,,or are there good and bad brands of 'beer'??? IB--just don--
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
yeah, that sounds about right!!! here are a couple i remember too --
1. a deaf girl was at the copier and got a telephone call (you know the printed message kind). anyway the guy who took it, walked up and tapped her on the shoulder to get her attention. you got it!! she filed sexual harassment because he touched her. SHE WON!! reason -- he put his hands on her. they said he should have walked around the coper (even tho it was against a wall), or stood at the side.
2. a very large woman was in the cafeteria line and moved to get something. a man behind her said, "whoa, beep beep, she's backing up." she filed based on discrimination against overweight people, and sex. she won!! he really was insulting tho...
3. a woman filed because the other employees only spoke their language when patrons were not around. she did not speak their language. so it was really dividing the office. (this is not my personal opinion, i'm just stating what they filed on.) she lost.
4. one woman and her friend always shared lunches and when she baked something she would give her friend part of it. this other woman filed because she said she should share equally with everyone in the office. while she didn't win, she caused tremendous conflict in the office. the one woman had to sneak her food in and put it in the other woman's lunch. it was really petty....
so see how people can be????? and these are only a teeny part of it.
you get to be really cynical and see the worst of people when you work in certain careers.
i'm glad to be out of it...the stress was killing me...
Posted by Ruth Ruth (Member # 11059) on :
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