Honored For Excellence
Posing with their awards are (from left): Julia, Lauren, Emily and Olivia.
The girls and mom played a mean trick on dad last night at the supper table. Mom said she went to the all-school assembly to watch the girls get some awards only to sit through the entire ceremony without them picking up any honors.
She said she was awfully disappointed with the girls' performance and that it was an embarassment to attend and not have her daughters earn a single certificate. Obviously it was a white light (judging from the proof in the picture), but dad didn't have a clue. He gave the girls a stern lecture about the importance of doing well in school every semester.
As it turns out, just before dessert, the girls came out proudly toting their certificates. Yep, they pulled a fast one on dad.
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6:16 AM
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“Bakhshish,” says a modern writer, “is a fee or present which the Arabs (here he means the Egyptians, who got the word from the Persians through the Turks,) claim on all occasions for services you render them, as well as for services they have rendered you. A doctor visits a patient gratis, -- the patient or his servant will ask for a bakhshish; you employ, pay, clothe, and feed a child – the father will demand his bakhshish; you may save the life of an Arab, at the risk of your own, and he will certainly claim a bakhshish. This bakhshish, in fact, is a sort of alms or tribute, which the poor Arab believes himself entitled to claim from every respectable-looking person.”
2:22 AM
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
9:10 AM
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
5:13 AM
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