[Anyone] FWD: I'm in trouble already....

[Pete Johnson]

>Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 16:26:51 -0700
>From: "Dona Fuller" <dfuller at hill-co.com>
>To: <KShurling at FremontGroup.com>
>Subject: FWD: I'm in trouble already....
>Status:  
>
>This is sweet ...
>
>Paul Harvey writes:
>
>   We tried so hard to make things better for our kids
>   that we have made them worse.
>   For my grandchildren, I'd like better.
>   I'd really like for them to know about hand me down
>   clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf
>   sandwiches. I really would.
>
>   I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and
>   that you learn honesty by being cheated. I hope you learn to
>   make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And
>   I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when
>   you are sixteen.
>
>   It will be good if at least one time you can see
>   puppies born and your old dog put to sleep. I hope you get a
>   black eye fighting for something you believe in, I
>   hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger
>   brother.
>
>   And it's all right if you have to draw a line down
>   the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under
>   the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you
>   let him.
>
>   When you want to see a movie and your little brother
>   wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him. I hope
>   you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and
>   that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
>
>   On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope
>   you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks
>   away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool
>   as your Mom.
>
>   If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you
>   how to make one instead of buying one. I hope you
>   learn to dig in the dirt and read books.
>
>   When you learn to use computers, I hope you also
>   learn to add and subtract in your head. I hope you
>   get teased by your friends when you have your first
>   crush on a girl, and when you talk back to your
>   mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.
>
>   May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn
>   your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a
>   frozen flagpole. I don't care if you try a beer
>   once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers
>   you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not
>   your friend.
>
>   I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with
>   your Grandma & Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.
>   May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the
>   holidays. I hope your mother punishes you when
>   you throw a baseball through your neighbor's
>   window and that she hugs you and kisses you at
>   Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold
>   of your hand.
>
>   These things I wish for you-tough times and
>   disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me,
>   it's the only way to appreciate life.
>
>   Send this to all of your friends who mean the most
>   to you. We secure our friends not by accepting
>   favors but by doing them.
>
>   Paul Harvey...GOOD DAY!
>
>but it won't be new.....it will be 16 years old!