One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.
We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car
jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.
My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and
missed the other car by just inches !
The driver of the other car whipped his head around and
started yelling at us.
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy.
And I mean, he was really friendly.
So I asked, 'why did you just do that'?
This is when my taxi driver taught me what
I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck".
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks.
They run around full of garbage, full of frustration,
full of anger, and full of disappointment.
As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it
and sometimes they'll dump it on you.
Don't take it personally.
Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.
Don't take their garbage and spread it to
other people at work, at home, or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not
let garbage trucks take over their day.
Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets...
Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't.
Life is ten percent what you make it,
and ninety percent how you take it.
Anonymous
4 comments:
What a delightful story and wonderful advice. I may use this in my Young Women's class at church.
We made it home safe and sound. We really enjoyed our trip even if Utah did dump a lot of snow on us. It was so pretty but not fun to drive in.
How are you? I am sending love.
Greetings from Almost paradise :)
Thank you so much for dropping by my blog today! And yep I'm a very lucky girl to be able to live my dream. Some times I have to pinch myself to be sure that it's real :)
Pattie ;)
Mazatlan Mexico
Grandma B - I saw your posting on Pattie's blog, The Joy of Nesting. This is the infamous LW she refers to.
Yep, Carnaval is an annual event. It's a six day blow out to celebrate the start of Lent. It's the third biggest in the Western Hemisphere, after New Orleans and Rio.
Something that makes Mazatlan's a little different is that it has a family orientation. We may have dancing girls on the floats, but there are NO bare-breasted lovlies. That will get you arrested here.
There are actually two firework displays. The first has mortars launching from the beach and a barge out in the bay at each other to celebrate the Mazatlecos driving off the attempted French invasion of 1864. Also, one parade is at night, and the other is in late afternoon so more of the little kiddies can see it.
Come on down for a visit. There are a lot of reasons why Mazatlan is called the "Pearl of the Pacific."
Life is good!!
LW
Thanks for posting this great story! My name is Dawn, and I work with David J. Pollay, the author of The Law of the Garbage Truck™ - Beware of Garbage Trucks™! I just wanted to stop by and let you know that you can read the original story on David’s blog davidjpollay.typepad.com. I know he’d love to have you stop by!
Also check out the video of people in New York City taking the No Garbage Trucks!™ Pledge: bewareofgarbagetrucks.com. It’s pretty cool.
Thanks again!
Dawn
dawn@themomentumproject.com
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