A Nice story with a good moral.

A kindergarten teacher has decided to let her class play a game.
 
 
 
The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes.
 
 
 
Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates,
 
So the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.
 
So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes; some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry with them the potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go (even to the toilet) for 1 week.
 
Days after days passed by, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended....
 
The teacher asked: "How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?". The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go.
 
Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. The teacher said: "This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for your lifetime???"
 

If You Wish

If you wish to be respected, then be ever respectful.
If you wish to be understood, then sincerely understand others.
If you wish to be appreciated, then be ever grateful.
If you wish to be loved, then give love in each moment.

If you wish to be wealthy, then act to create real value.
If you wish to learn, then take time to teach.
If you wish to climb higher, then life others up.
If you wish to be wise, then share what you know.

Whatever you wish, life will surely give it.
What you must do, though, is to truly live it.

There is so much to live for and so much to see.
You will have whatever you are willing to be.

The Tea Cup

There was a couple who went to England to shop in the beautiful stores. They
both liked antiques, pottery and especially teacups. This was their twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary.
One day in a shop they saw a beautiful teacup. They said, "May we see that?
We've never seen one quite so beautiful." As the shopkeeper handed it to them,
suddenly the teacup spoke. "You don't understand," it said. "I haven't always
been a teacup. There was a time when I was red and I was clay. My master took me
and rolled me and patted me over and over and I yelled out, 'let me alone, but
he only smiled, 'Not yet.'"
"Then I was placed on a spinning wheel," the teacup said, "and suddenly I was
spun around and around and around. Stop it! I'm getting dizzy! I screamed. But
the master only nodded and said, 'Not yet.'"
"Then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I wondered why he wanted to
burn me, and I yelled and knocked at the door. I could see him through the
opening and I could read his lips as he shook his head, 'Not yet'".
"Finally the door opened, he put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. 'There,
that's better,' I said. And he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were
horrible. I thought I would gag. 'Stop it, stop it!' I cried. He only nodded,
'Not yet.'"
"Then suddenly he put me back into the oven, not like the first one. This was
twice as hot and I knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed. I
cried. All the time I could see him through the opening nodding his head saying,
'Not yet.' "
"Then I knew there wasn't any hope. I would never make it. I was ready to give
up. But the door opened and he took me out and placed me on the shelf. One hour
later he handed me a mirror and said, 'Look at yourself.'"
And I did. I said, 'That's not me; that couldn't be me. It's beautiful. I'm
beautiful.'"
'I want you to remember, then,' he said, 'I know it hurts to be rolled and
patted, but if I had left you alone, you'd have dried up. I know it made you
dizzy to spin around on the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have
crumbled. I knew it hurt and was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I
hadn't put you there, you would have cracked. I know the fumes were bad when I
brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would
have hardened; you would not have had any color in your life. And if I hadn't
put you back in that second oven, you wouldn't survive for very long because the
hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished product. You are what I had
in mind when I first began with you.'"

Computers....there is hope for me yet..

This ought to make you feel better about your computer skills!  If you
skip any, you have to read the last one!  Unbelievable, but supposedly
all true!!!!

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Tech support:   What kind of computer do you have?

Female customer:   A white one...

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Customer:   Hi, this is Maureen. I can't get my diskette out.
Tech support:  Have you tried pushing the Button?
Customer:  Yes, sure, it's really stuck.
Tech support:  That doesn't sound good; I'll make a note.
Customer:  No , wait a minute... I hadn't inserted it yet... it's
still on my desk... sorry....

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Tech support:  Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the screen.
Customer:  Your left or my left?


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Tech support:  Good day. How may I help you?
Male customer:   Hello... I can't print.
Tech support: Would you click on 'start'  for me and...
Customer:  Listen pal; don't start getting technical on me! I'm not Bill Gates.


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Customer:  Hi, good afternoon, this is Martha, I can't print. Every
time I try, it says 'Can't find printer'.  I've even lifted the
printer and placed it in front of the monitor, but the computer still
says he can't find it...


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Customer:  I have problems printing in red...
Tech support:  Do you have a color printer?
Customer:  Aaaah....................thank you.


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Tech support:  What's on your monitor now, ma'am?
Customer:   A teddy bear my boyfriend bought for me at Woolies.


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Customer:   My keyboard is not working anymore.
Tech support:  Are you sure it's plugged into the computer?
Customer:  No. I can't get behind the computer.
Tech support:  Pick up your keyboard and walk 10 paces back.
Customer:!   OK
Tech support:   Did the keyboard come with you?
Customer:  Yes
Tech support:  That means the keyboard is not plugged in. Is there
another keyboard?
Customer:  Yes, there's another one here. Ah...that one does work...


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Tech support:   Your password is the small letter 'a' as in apple, a
capital letter V as in Victor, the number 7.
Customer:  Is that 7 in capital letters ?


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Customer:  can't get on the Internet.
Tech support:  Are you sure you used the right password?
Customer:  Yes, I'm sure. I saw my colleague do it.
Tech support:  Can you tell me what the password was?
Customer:  Five stars.


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Tech support:   What anti-virus program do you use?
Customer:  Netscape.
Tech support:  That's not an anti-virus program.
Customer:  Oh, sorry...Internet Explorer.


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Customer:   I have a huge problem. A friend has placed a screen saver
on my computer, but every time I move the mouse, it disappears.


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Tech support:  How may I help you?
Customer:  I'm writing my first e-mail.
Tech support:  OK,  and what seems to be the problem?
Customer:  Well, I have the letter 'a' in the address, but how do I
get the circle around it?


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A woman customer called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer.
Tech support:  Are you running it under windows?
Customer:  'No, my desk is next to the door, but that is a good point.
 The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window, and his
printer is working fine.'


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And last but not least...

Tech support: 'Okay Colin, let's press the control and escape keys at
the same time. That brings up a task list in the middle of the screen.
Now type the letter 'P' to bring up the Program Manager.'
Customer:  I don't have a P.
Tech support:  On your keyboard, Colin.
Customer:   What do you mean?
Tech support:  'P'.....on your keyboard, Colin.
Customer:  I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT!!