He’s baaaaaaaack!
ETA: Google ads for Men’s Waxing Salon, Austin and Gay Las Vegas. :dubious:
The only problem I have with the OP is that I’d give Mother Theresa about a 2 or 3. Of course, the public image she created for herself deserves a 10.
My experience with myself and others being called heroes is that no, it means “I have serious problems imagining how could I (and therefore, others) take a different action.”
Also, often people who were terrified of a situation that the better-trained didn’t find so serious say things like “ohmyGod, you’re a hero, you saved my life” when all you did was get him out of the way and stop the tiny problem before it became newsworthy. OK, yeah, so if everybody there had been as badly-trained as the person calling you a hero the building would have burned down… but dunnow, I still have problems seeing how knowing which is a fire extinguisher’s business end makes me or my friends who’ve been in similar situations heros. And since the same person can keep his cool one day and lose it another due to things beyond their control, well… dunnow, it’s a bit like being praised for breathing.
McMansions equals heroic action for American citizens.
"We’re not selling shelter," says the president of Toll Brothers, a builder of upscale homes. “We’re selling extreme-ego, look-at-me types of homes.” In 2000, Toll Brothers’ most popular home was 3,200 square feet; by 2005, it had grown 50 percent, to 4,800 square feet. These “McMansions” often feature marble floors, sweeping staircases, vaulted ceilings, family rooms, studies, home entertainment centers and more bedrooms than people.
‘House Lust’ Hits Home Article from Washington Post Jan 2, 2008
Speaking of Gay Las Vegas…heroes are people like the drag queens who fought the police in the streets of NYC at a little bar called Stonewall. I owe them a huge debt of gratitude and their actions have made a difference in millions of lives ever since.
While it is nice to hear the OP’s story of his family eking out a living during the Great Depression. it sounds more like a family who was in the right place at a bad time.
Please don’t start this routine again, where you ignore other people’s responses and just post the same things you are posting on all the other message boards. This is not part of your lecture circuit, and we are not your students.