One of my favorite Bible verses has to do with trusting someone in the little things. The official verse goes as follows.
I recall Buzzy telling me something along those lines when I was a kid and had messed something up. As he was trying to show me the error of my ways I smart mouthed him back with “So what’s the big deal?” That’s when he gave me, and I first heard, his variation of Luke’s above quote. Little things matter.
Thus, through out my personal and business dealings with folks that I’ve met along life’s highway, I have always kept this lesson in mind. From my experiences, it is, for the most part, very true. The people I respect most in life are the ones I trust the most both in the little things as well as with the bigger things. Like Luke says above, if someone is good about the little things, you can trust them with regards to the bigger things.
Now juxtapose that sentiment with what went down last September during the National Weather Service’s forecast of the path of Hurricane Dorian. Recall how Dorian tore up the Bahamas and was then making its way towards Florida? Somewhere along the line our leader noted that Alabama was also in the Dorian’s path. It was not.
However, when caught in this very minor lie, even say misstatement, about the path of the Hurricane over Alabama, our boy then used a Sharpie to doctor a weather map to try and prove that he was not lying. (Sharpie line is the black one shown here to include parts of Alabama.)
For the complete story and just in case you Trumpsters are thinking that I made this up (click here.) Bottom line – he lied about lying. I know, I know it’s a little thing (nowhere near his bigger and better health care or Mexico will pay for the wall lies) but hopefully you get my point – Sharpie and all! (Subsequent to the original story, there was this followup look at how the weather organizations were churning about trying to deal with his weather-related tweets and misinformation during that time (click here.))
Speaking of churning about, if you are out for a Sunday drive today ride down to Buzzy’s Country Store. You can trust that the beer will be cold and other little things like that will all be as promised.
As for New Yorkers and trust, Billy said it best. Video here was filmed in New York city. It captures various peoples’ reactions to this live performance including the lady at the 1:40 and 4:44 marks yelling for them to shut up. Some added video trivia for you – see if you can locate Paul and Ringo’s very brief cameo appearances. Hints – Ringo is bearded and Paul is leaning against a wall. Wonder if Billy tried this again today if the cops would be as cool as they were here?!
Bonus good thought for the day – this time next week February is over! (Trust me on that.)