One recent Saturday afternoon I called Josh Ridgell to see if he was up for doing some yard work. Usually I try and coordinate with him earlier in the week but on that particular day something came up last minute where I needed his help. I wasn’t really expecting that he’d be available. However, he noted that he had just finished helping his Dad do a carpet job and could help me out the rest of the afternoon which he did.
(Commercial break Clyde Ridgell is an excellent carpet/flooring installer. If you ever need anything done or re-done in your haciendas give him a call.)
On the way down the road taking Josh home, I commented that I appreciated him helping me out on short notice and Josh said “It wasn’t a problem. We had just gotten home when you called. I remembered what you said about objects in motion so I figured I’d keep on working rather than just sit around the house and do nothing.”
I smiled and said “Thanks.” However, deep down inside I was kind of pleased that he had actually internalized and quoted back to me something that I had said to him previously about objects in motion tend to stay in motion.
I didn’t bother telling him that Sir Issac Newton (click here) had come up with that idea a long time ago and that it wasn’t a J. Scott Ridgell original. Somewhere along the line Josh will be in a science class someday and go “So that’s where that came from.”