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jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley) writes:
> I would 
> love to be in the world that was described to me while younger where people
> had integrity, one's word ment something, people trusted and could
> trust one another, and there is a sense of community.  

In article <1996May7.212506.1@eisner>,  <walker_g@eisner.decus.org> wrote:
>I live in a world like this. My best friend lives across the street.

   [ The reset of Gail's happy personal world deleted. ]


Gail, I, too, have a good circle of friends & acquaintances and do enjoy my
day-to-day existance.  But I also know this is because I put in the personal
energy & enthusiasm to make that way.  It wasn't personal worlds I was
thinking of more than our society as a whole.  Let me give you a real life
example.  Because I have a shitbox car, I really don't care about it having
minor dents & scratches.  Last summer I pulled up to a stop light and the
guy next to me got too close.  Both cars were parallel going from 10 mph down
to 0 mph.  I got a small 2 inch scratch and so did the other car.  We
exchanged licence info, etc. but I didn't think much of it.  Three months
later I hear from my insurance company that Garcia (the other driver) had
filed a claim against me for the accident claiming physical disabilities
with a fancy personal injury lawyer!  He described our accident as being
like a "T" with me ramming into him!!!

If Garcia had lived in my town he would have never thought of trying to
pull such a scam; but because we're in different worlds plus his economic
status was one of appearing to not have anything to lose, so why not go for
the gold in a bogus personal injury lawsuit????

This is what I mean about constantly having to be on guard for sleezy
actions coming out of the blue because there's very little integrity
left in my real world (not my immediate personal world but society as
a whole.)

  - John

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