Yesterday my tool of choice was a spear, a pole with a nail driven into one end. Instructions are simple: Aim at trash, thrust, lift, place trash in bag.
It was the Keep Midland Beautiful trash pickup, and people all over town were out there cleaning up our city. I spent about 3.5 hours at a rather large park, but this time there were some others who came along and helped out. (I had the whole park to myself last time.)
Speaking of spears, here's a story someone told me about a trash pickup. They were doing a beach cleanup, and many of the volunteers were given trash spears. My friend had the job of holding the bag while the others put their trash into it. So she holds the bag open for one of the volunteers, and the volunteer jabbed her spear into it... You're way ahead of me, and you are right. It was Tetanus shot time. Some people shouldn't be trusted with sharp objects.
Next time I'm going to be armed with one of those store bought grabbers.
How many pecks in a chicken? Why would anyone teach pecks as a unit of volume? As we live in a global community. The whole world works on a metric system so our students will not be able to communicate if they don't know the metric system. I worked in Detroit 10 years ago and damn it we converted everything into metric. it isn't hard, the rest of the world is using it, and it is dumbing U.S. people. Adapt and compete at the global level...we need to be globally valuable so that we have a decent economy!!!
Think metric...not obsolete measure of peck...how many drams in a stone...?
Units are important and obviously hard to transfer so teach the new stuff not quarts pints and thimblefulls.
for the better of the U.S. and everyone that has to deal with us...i guess
Captain America
Posted by: any non emos | November 05, 2008 at 02:23 AM