I Appreciate Good People
What is the nicest thing anyone has done for you in your lifetime?
In the 7th grade I made a wall hanging in art that was atrocious. My principle came to me one day and said,"I hear you made a wall hanging...where is it?" I walked with him to my locker and showed him that horrible piece of garbage that I had just tossed into my locker. He said,"How much do you want for it?" I said,"Huh?" He repeated what he said and told me he would give me $5 for it. I'm thinking,"$5?! That would get me French fries, a corn dog, a Coke and a candy bar for lunch with some left over for the store after school. I told him sure."
Little did I know that for the next 20 years that principal had that ugly wall hanging on the wall in his office and every time I drove past the school and stopped at the Red light I could see it hanging on the wall through the window.
I'm not sure why he wanted mine...maybe because he knew I struggled with it, stayed after school, got into trouble because I didn't know what the h*ll I was doing, and when it came out crooked the teacher had to fix it.
I now have him on Facebook and he lives down in Florida now. He tells me every once in a while how he has my art project still hanging in his office at home and how when he looks at it he still thinks of that sweet girl at South Side Middle School.
Mr. Ellis...will always be #1 in my book.
In the 7th grade I made a wall hanging in art that was atrocious. My principle came to me one day and said,"I hear you made a wall hanging...where is it?" I walked with him to my locker and showed him that horrible piece of garbage that I had just tossed into my locker. He said,"How much do you want for it?" I said,"Huh?" He repeated what he said and told me he would give me $5 for it. I'm thinking,"$5?! That would get me French fries, a corn dog, a Coke and a candy bar for lunch with some left over for the store after school. I told him sure."
Little did I know that for the next 20 years that principal had that ugly wall hanging on the wall in his office and every time I drove past the school and stopped at the Red light I could see it hanging on the wall through the window.
I'm not sure why he wanted mine...maybe because he knew I struggled with it, stayed after school, got into trouble because I didn't know what the h*ll I was doing, and when it came out crooked the teacher had to fix it.
I now have him on Facebook and he lives down in Florida now. He tells me every once in a while how he has my art project still hanging in his office at home and how when he looks at it he still thinks of that sweet girl at South Side Middle School.
Mr. Ellis...will always be #1 in my book.
