Humbled & Grateful after Fifteen Years

In the month and year of July 2000, an elderly man decided to buy a chicken dinner from the Deli Department of a local grocery store, a spot he would often pass on his way home from work for a railroad company.  For some weird reason, he asked the wise-cracking, 20-something deli clerk behind the counter one question:  "Can you type?"  The rest is a Karma Reaper love story with Lady Luck.

I showed up to a hiring session where the only criteria was to be able to type 35 words minimum per limit.  65 people showed up for a job not knowing 1) it was not a field position 2) it was a clerical (Clerk) job where typing fast was a requirement and 3) there was going to be drug testing prior to hiring.  Once this was known there was only 7 people left to interview.  Lady Luck not only smiled on my professional career that day, She gave me her hotel room key.

Less than a month later, I turned in my apron at the grocery store deli and became a railroader.  Lady Luck and I have been Friends With Benefits ever since.  I was lucky to be at the store that day and wait on that elderly man.  Grateful is too weak of a word to describe how appreciative I am to have worked with this company for more than a decade and a half.

Two years into working in the Transportation Department as a third-shift Clerk, Lady Luck decided I should move over to the Engineering Department, a group that put up with me for the next dozen years of my railroad career.  Although the engineering projects were challenging, I gravitated towards projects that eliminated grade crossings and crossing hazards, making them safer.  Afterwards, the Safety & Environmental Department called my name in the month and year June 2015 and I was promoted to new role.

I give all of the credit to Lady Luck because my "talent" really only boils down to "Can you type?"  One golden opportunity presented itself and I took full advantage of it for the next 15 years of my life.  I am humbled by the people who continue to work along beside me and grateful for all of the opportunities that I have been presented working for this railroad company.  My joke with my wife is that she'd rather sleep with Mr. Sandman than with me.  I hope she won't divorce me for continuing my affair with Ms. Lady Luck.

It's been a great 15 years.  I'm looking forward to the next 15!

This Is Who You Are...Don't Deny It!

I'm gonna have fun next year.  Politics has always been a game to me and I love playing with people that take it too seriously.  People that think that this country's destiny will really hinge on one person being elected to an office really crack me up.  They crack me up even more when they think this country will go down the tubes because the person they wanted to be elected lost.  When Obama won back in 2008 I was excited...I was excited because I knew people would start bitching about him.  Every president gets bitched about.  The first black president was a perfect target for closet bigots everywhere finding "political" reasons voice their hatred for the most powerful man on the planet.  This is going to be a fun year because I'd love to hear what the closet bigots have to say about THE DON!

Bigots looooooove THE DON and I would love him too if I was one of them.  He tells them everything they want to hear.  He reminds me of that kid in high school that was running for class president that promised the senior class free pizza for lunch and no homework ever again!!!!  Donald Trump is awesome to me because I could never take him seriously.  His supporters are awesome to me too because they are so predictable.  Trump would be a breath a fresh air for those who are having a hard time of coming out of the bigotry closet.  

Let's take a good long look at at Trump's "Diverse" group of supporters.  Actually, it's not going to take that long of a look because it's obvious...they aren't really diverse.  Perhaps Trump's supporters should wonder why everyone who will vote for him are the same color and dislike the same people?  Hey, if you want to be the leader of a diverse country, you might want to reach out to a demographic that is a little bit more...ya know...diverse.  What makes it even better is that he pretty much has the GOP on lock-down!


There is no coincidence here.  I am not some bleeding heart liberal, but I do know that if your platform is obsessed with xenophobia, the Grand Ol' Party is perfect for you.  I don't think all Republicans are xenophobic, but it is easier to be xenophobic when you are running on the GOP ticket...now isn't that strange?  If a Democrat was spouting off at the mouth about illegals coming in this country and non-Christians...he/she would no longer be considered a Democrat.

If Trump gets elected president, there will still be people bitching on Facebook.  The right to Bitch is part of what it is to be an American.  The bitching will just be by the other half of the country.  No one is going to be satisfied and silent when the right to bitch is part of American culture.  Too bad people don't realize that bitching about the problem doesn't solve the problem.

The fact that Trump is bitch-slapping the GOP doesn't surprise me.  He is pretty much telling his audience what they want to hear...can you blame him?  If you have to be a politically incorrect bigot to get votes...GO FOR IT!  I personally want to see if it works, and if it does, the same bigots will claim that Trump was an awesome President (even if he wasn't, but they wouldn't know the difference...most bigots wont).



If everyone's knee-jerk reaction was the way this country was run, we would be in a world of shit.The important question you must ask yourself is this:  Do you really think this country will become a better place if everyone thought exactly alike???  Do you hate Obama so much that you want a former reality TV star to be the next leader of the free world???

Kanye West is going to run in 2020!  His wife has an awesome ass so I'll vote for him.