Get off your lazy ass!
As I was driving into work today, I saw a homeless person on the side of the freeway onramp. Now, it is not at all uncommon to see homeless people here in the city, but what surprised me was the sign he was holding. The sign he held made me so mad that I wanted to roll down my window and yell rather strong expletives at him. His sign read:
Homeless
Please Help
Cash ≥ Care
The first two lines are rather standard and not a problem, but that last line just sent my patience for this man's plight over the edge. Cash is greater than care? The only way that cash would be greater than care in this man's case is if he used the cash to buy a lot of alcohol, got drunk and stumbled into the middle of a busy road and died after behind ping ponged around by three or four cars. Cash is greater than care, I just can't believe it. How can he be so lazy? I feel sorry that certain people are homeless, but when all they care about is people giving them handouts, I can't stand it. The church I go to just opened a new service called the Lima Center that serves the homeless of San Francisco. They offer shower facilities, washers & driers, a piano, a TV and meals several days a week. That is what I call care, helping people out with things they would otherwise do without. If I handed that lazy ass on the side of the road a five dollar bill, does he reall think that is better that the Lima Center which has so much more to offer? Cash ≥ Care? Give me a break. (OK, so technically that symbold does mean "greater than or equal to" but I know what he's truly after.)
On a different note, I saw a very intelligent license plate today. The license plate said "F OVER M" which I immediately recognized as one side of a mathematical equation. Thinking about for a few seconds yielded the very clever answer to me F/M = A. It's an equivalent form of the physics equation F=M*A which means, Force is equal to Mass times Acceleration. "F OVER M" therefore would be equal to Acceleration. Given that this license plate appeared on a Lotus made it all the more intelligent.