responsibility

Taking Responsibility

Last week a parcel delivery truck raced down our street, a very short street with three houses on each side.  I remembered it from every other night because the truck was traveling so fast, and right in front of my house, there was a loud bang as he passed.  I looked out to see if the truck had hit something, …

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Accountibility Redeemed – Just another night of damage to our vehicle

Quietly eating dinner tonight with my family, the waiter came to our table and asked if we own a certain vehicle in their parking lot.  I could tell before he even came over this wasn’t going to be good news.  The waiter told us someone just struck our vehicle in the lot, and then drove away, leaving our damaged vehicle …

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Twelve Traits – The Source

As a few individuals accurately identified, the source of these traits instilled in young men worldwide is…. The Boy Scouts. http://www.scouting.org/ Trustworthy    Loyal     Helpful     Friendly     Courteous     Kind Obedient     Cheerful     Thrifty      Brave      Clean      Reverent In fairness, as I only have boys in our family, I was told the Girl Scouts have a very similar character building motive for young woman.  In …

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Accountability. Taking Responsibility.

Allstate Insurance is running a television commercial, where a man pretending to be a sixteen year old girl talking on her cell phone drives the pink car into a parked car in a crowded parking lot, causing significant damage. He never misses a beat or thinks twice but simply keeps on driving, speeding out of the parking lot. This is just another …

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