By golly Unca Joel - that's one of the best ones yet!!

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
88 GL Hope to Drive 'er

joel walker wrote:
> ok, what the heck ... try this one on for size ...
>
>   IF --
>  by Junkyard Keepling
>
> If  you can torque your heads when all about you
>  Are cracking theirs and blaming someone new,
> If  you can trust your work when men will fault you,
>  But make allowances for their failures, too;
> If  you can wait on parts and not be tired by waiting,
>  Or being lied to, don't pay back the deal in lies;
> Or  when hated for your choices, never choose the Hating;
>  And still remember that not all of us are wise;
>
>
> If  you can save but not for adulation;
>  If  you can spend ...and not make money spent your aim;
> If  you can meet with Paint and Restoration
>  And treat those two decievers just the same;
> If  you can bear to see the Truths of Life bespoken
>  In myriad ways to sell a Lie to Fools,
> Or  watch the engine you gave your life to, broken,
>  Then start to build it back with worn-out tools;
>
>
> If  you can camp alone while crowds are all around you,
>  yet be a crowd of one in Nature far from home,
> If  dings and faded paints are something seen through,
>  just covers hiding Value by the tome,
> If  you can drive the hurried mile per minute
>      at leisure pace and call it Fun,
> Yours is the Highway of Life, and all that's on it,
>  And ... what's more ... you'll drive a bus, my son!
>
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