don’t ever have it
as bad as you think – someone’s …
always got it worse

“We didn’t have a lot of money growing up,” the coach recalls. “When you’re young, you just know if you can have something or you can’t. Most of the time, you can’t.

“But then you see we’re giving so-and-so our old coats, or we’re giving them food, or this car has been in the family for years and we’re going to give it to another family because they had a house fire.

“As a kid, it doesn’t make sense, because these are people you don’t even know. But it taught me that you don’t ever have it as bad as you think you have it. Someone’s always got it worse. My mother taught me that. My mother and father both. Be thankful for what you got. And treat everyone equally.”

Detroit Lions Head Coach Dan Campbell as quoted in “Mitch Albom: Dan Campbell’s roots helped make him Detroit Lions savior.“

… you don’t ever have it as bad as you think you have it.

Someone’s always got it worse.

My mother taught me that.

My mother and father both.

Be thankful for what you got.

And treat everyone equally.

I read this and I ask myself why not?

Yet I know there are a lot of folks, many who just got themselves elected to high office, who will read this and ask, “Why?”

no authority and
an ideological
opposition … but

The quote, “I have zero authority on the subject and also an ideological opposition to this question, but yes” was in response to the question, “Good table manners?“

Readers of this blog will remember that on Saturday Mornings, I enjoy a feature in the Guardian titled Blind Date where two people are selected to meet on a ‘blind date’ at some London Restuarant.

After the date, the two people get a questionnaire to fill out on their experience.

I really like this response.

I have zero authority on the subject and also an ideological opposition to this question, but yes.

Zero authority … on table manners?

Ideological opposition to … table manners?

Honestly, the way the world is today, I guess I thought maybe table manners was something we all might get together on.

But an ideological opposition?

In an era when dogs are allowed?

I wrote that before I even looked up the place where these two met.

Some restaurant called The Cavendish in London.

The online navigation lists:

Sunday Roast –

Dining …

and of course …

Dog Menu.

The menu also lists such American favorites as 24h slow cooked ox cheek and Orange and beetroot-cured salmon with tiger’s milk, herb oil and parsley glass cracker.

It will cost me some readers but I have an ideological opposition to dogs in public eateries.

As Mr. Wright might say, “There you are.”