Comments on: Coca-Cola Klepto

By: drtombibey

drtombibey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:09:03 +0000

Smitty,

I was about ready to hire a detective sure enough. I expect after a few years in the school business the on-the-job training is an honorary degree in such matters.

Dr. B

By: Smitty Neuse River Pres.

Smitty Neuse River Pres. — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:31:14 +0000

Doc sorry you got a fix on this Coca Cola(first bottled in Vicksburg Mississippi) thing. If this is the only vice you have, then you are all right. I am like the rest of the bunch about stealing stuff. At school we are pretty good at that stuff. I have been an assistant principal at a high school and we are few hours shy of being the local FBI. Maybe sometime, I can give you a few things to look for if it happens again.

By: drtombibey

drtombibey — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:51:16 +0000

Pnade,

It seems we make a lot of office rules because of the ones who always break the rules. The ones who do right never consider any other way of thinking. The rules get made for the bad guys and they always figure out how to get around them!

Dr. B

By: pandemonic

pandemonic — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:19:06 +0000

My coworkers had to put tags on their food. It’s a bit ridiculous. I would never think to eat someone else’s food or drink their drink, why would anyone else do it?

By: drtombibey

drtombibey — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:28:55 +0000

Ted,

Last night I took an evening off from anything “productive” and listened to a bunch of my old Jim and Jesse LPs. I slept so good last night and woke up 100% refreshed and recharged.

I know it doesn’t work for everyone, but Lord knows I love that music. The singing, melody, and the lyrics are even more important to me than the picking.

Dr. B

By: Ted Lehmann

Ted Lehmann — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:17:26 +0000

Can’t resist coming back to this. Irene, a truly good person, in fact, good enough to marry me and stick it out, She is constantly amazed that people of supposedly “good” backgrounds – great education, great wealth, fine family, etc. – can behave badly. Where is it written that there’s a connection between background and behavior. One of the great things about bluegrass music is that it celebrates the total humanity of just plain folks, in their strengths and, most certainly, in their times of weakness. Perhaps its that feature of the lyrics, and their reflection in the music, that most appeals about bluegrass. And never forget, that embedded in bluegrass culture, is always the promise of a better day. The sun will always rise tomorrow, in all senses of that idea. – Ted

By: drtombibey

drtombibey — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:06:28 +0000

Auntie,

The things adult human beings will do never cease to amaze me. Somehow they can steal from kids and rationalize it is O.K. Beats me.

Dr. B

By: drtombibey

drtombibey — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:03:53 +0000

Ted,

I should give ‘em up, but I still love the things.

Dr. B

By: whodoesshethinksheisanyway

whodoesshethinksheisanyway — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:20:10 +0000

Doc, it blows my mind that people take things that don’t belong to them. What is even worse is when people in helping professions do it. When I worked in residential, we had a staff that was stealing stuff from the kids. Kids who came to our program with a trash bag full of everything they owned. How can you steal from a KID whose only possessions can fit in a trash bag?!! We couldn’t prove it was her (although we tried really hard) but we eventually fired her for something else. Guess what! The kids stuff STOPPED disappearing. It made me feel sick to my stomach. How she slept at night I don’t know.
-Auntie

By: Ted Lehmann

Ted Lehmann — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:08:48 +0000

It took me a while living in the South to realize that “Would you like a Coke?” wasn’t generic. In Tyler, TX, where we had moved to teach, we were invited to a faculty event which started at a house with drinks – the choice – tomato juice or coke. In the end, we’ve pretty well stopped drinking carbonated drinks of any kind…bloat me up. – Ted