I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show "Ahernwill"
wrote back on Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:33:43 GMT in
rec.crafts.metalworking :
Every morning a group of us have coffee in a local restaurant and there is
one guy who constantly complains about everything- weather, taxes, price of
gas, politicians, lawyers, schools, traffic, foreigners of any kind,etc. and
on and on. It has gotten to the point where the whole table dreads his
arrival. The irony is that he lives in a nice neighborhood, has a new truck
and his wife has a newer car- he also has a camper , a boat, a quad and a
housefull of nice furniture, TV's, appliances, a garage stuffed with all
kinds of tools and gadgets etc. Having travelled all over the world in my
career, I can say with authority that 95% of the world's population could
live comfortably on what he spends on his boat and camper. I sometimes want
to grab him by the shirt and say " What the F**K is your problem man? " But
instead I said it here- anyone else know a guy like this?

Yeah. Some people would complain if they were hung with a new silk
rope.

I've been "all over the world" myself. Places where we got "today's"
paper a day late, and nobody drank city water. Five dollar petrol, back
when a dollar was worth $2.50. I know that what United Staters consider
abject poverty, most of the world considers "bloody well off." So what? I
don't live there.
It is also my misfortune to currently live in a neighborhoods where two
bedroom apartments costs $850 a month. But it's an improvement over the
place where I had to shell out $450 for a hole in the wall, with the
bathroom down the hall. Oh, I wasn't complaining, it beat having a corner
of a box out on the expressway.
Heck, I can remember having to make due with only a black and white
television, no cell phone, and the only phone in the house was a rotary
dial model!

--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."