Did you make a difference

My life can be summed up by two words.  The gumption trap.  Robert Persig coined that term.

So if I answer the question honestly,  no I haven't made any difference.

Bob wrote:My life can be summed up by two words.  The gumption trap.  Robert Persig coined that term.

So if I answer the question honestly,  no I haven't made any difference.

Bob you made a difference in the motion picture and consession industry. How soon we forget.

Was duct tape part of the trophy in 1959? Pretty cool nonetheless. Run Forest run........

So if I answer the question honestly, no I haven't made any difference.


I can only speak for myself, but you have made a difference on this forum, and many a day you have left me with pleasant thought provoking posts.......it would be hard to put a price on the same.......sometimes small things matter.

Joanimaroni wrote:

Bob you made a difference in the motion picture and consession industry. How soon we forget.

Thanks for that,  Joani.  But if I continue to be honest with myself,  the truth is seaoat (thanks for the undeservedly kind words in your last post, seaoat) was right about that.  I'm afraid the gumption trap kicked me in the butt there too.
If I hadn't "made that difference",  I woulda never eaten all those snacks because it was against my religion (jewish) to visit those concession stands.
But by "making that difference", I got the snacks I carried into theaters at Dollar Tree,  Save-a-Lot, the T&W flea market and other dirt cheap sources.  Consequently,  I often literally filled every pocket and every crevice with snacks which have the highest calorie and saturated fat content in the entire food industry.  Enough to keep food in my mouth for the whole movie.  
And this has resulted in my triglycerides being off the chart and my arteries being hard as concrete.
The gumption trap manifests itself in many ways. And sadly I've fallen victim to most all of them.

Bob wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:

Bob you made a difference in the motion picture and consession industry. How soon we forget.

Thanks for that,  Joani.  But if I continue to be honest with myself,  the truth is seaoat (thanks for the undeservedly kind words in your last post, seaoat) was right about that.  I'm afraid the gumption trap kicked me in the butt there too.
If I hadn't "made that difference",  I woulda never eaten all those snacks because it was against my religion (jewish) to visit those concession stands.
But by "making that difference", I got the snacks I carried into theaters at Dollar Tree,  Save-a-Lot, the T&W flea market and other dirt cheap sources.  Consequently,  I often literally filled every pocket and every crevice with snacks which have the highest calorie and saturated fat content in the entire food industry.  Enough to keep food in my mouth for the whole movie.  
And this has resulted in my triglycerides being off the chart and my arteries being hard as concrete.
The gumption trap manifests itself in many ways. And sadly I've fallen victim to most all of them.

Bob, forget the triglycerides and non-flexible arteries....you spread the wealth around...Dollartree, Save-a-Lot, and other venues. You made a difference.

2seaoat wrote:Was duct tape part of the trophy in 1959?   Pretty cool nonetheless.  Run Forest run........

Just a little bit of morning nastiness.

Just a little bit of morning nastiness.



Hardly.......I just have this vision of Hallmark pulling his pants down and showing Johnson his buttocks. The trophy is cool, and I to played in Y ping pong tournaments, but the difference is I never won a trophy. I was a croquet champion and high jump champion in the city as a 12 year old.......jumping into hard packed sand with a simple roll....no foosberry flop or jumping mats. I ruled the croquet matches......dominated, but they only gave a blue ribbon.

I have made a difference in the lives of my family and myself, other people, not so much.

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2seaoat wrote:Just a little bit of morning nastiness.



Hardly.......I just have this vision of Hallmark pulling his pants down and showing Johnson his buttocks.  The trophy is  cool, and I to played in Y ping pong tournaments, but the difference is I never won a trophy.  I was a croquet champion and high jump champion in the city as a 12 year old.......jumping into hard packed sand with a simple roll....no foosberry flop or jumping mats.  I ruled the croquet matches......dominated, but they only gave a blue ribbon.

I don't have that image of him at all. Some can show their ass with their pants up.....verbal bulling. Run Forest run.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours ... In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. H.D.T.

The tape covered my name, as you well know.

That was a nice trophy. We used to have a local sports store which used to engrave the trophies, and had all the local sports team uniforms, but then they just got blown out of the water with the national sports chains......it was a simple time, and that trophy shows a certain quality of construction which you would not find today.

Mr Ichi wrote:Yes  Things were very different.  Getting an engraved trophy was pretty neat, even if it was for Ping Pong.  The damn thing is 55 years old.  One of the very few things I have from that time period of my life.

Memories like that are very important.

Joanimaroni wrote:

Mr Ichi wrote:Yes  Things were very different.  Getting an engraved trophy was pretty neat, even if it was for Ping Pong.  The damn thing is 55 years old.  One of the very few things I have from that time period of my life.

Memories like that are very important.

Why ?  Memories like that clog up one's life no less than boxes of clothes that don't fit any more sitting in your living room. Ichi has a beautiful life right now. He lives in a flow of consciousness. Looking back is counter productive to that man. This whole thread is morbid. Reminds me of people that take vacation and spend their time taking pictures and never really immersing themselves in the grandeur of the moment. Then in some distant time try to shuffle through the pictures to find a feeling they never really had.

No...

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This whole thread is morbid.

Not to those who have found happiness in their lives and do not fear their past or the decisions they made........I guess not having made a difference is painful, but it should not be......it is just memories......those who fail to look back and learn usually end up lost.

Mr Ichi wrote:Table tennis or Ping Pong used to be a big deal here in Pensacola.  Fred Levin, Dave and his sons, Don and Larry were all big table tennis players.  I won the Senior Boys in 1960 after losing to Don Caton for the previous 2 years.  We even went to different High schools and Elementry schools and played exhibition games to promote the sport..  Practice tables  were hard to come by but most of us (Catons had their own table at their house) played in a little room at the YMCA.  The city wide tournaments were held at Sanders beach and  had a good draw. I can still play fairly well but the lost of vision in one eye has hurt my game.  One of my most prized possessions is this runner up trophy from 1959.

That's really cool. I used to hang out at bayview with larry... he was out guru... lol. Bruce and I are still good friends... don not so much... lol. We were mostly rivals. Beating any of them at anything is a worthy accomplishment.

2seaoat wrote:This whole thread is morbid.

Not to those who have found happiness in their lives and do not fear their past or the decisions they made........I guess not having made a difference is painful, but it should not be......it is just memories......those who fail to look back and learn usually end up lost.

Yes humility is not one of your faults.

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2seaoat wrote:This whole thread is morbid.

Not to those who have found happiness in their lives and do not fear their past or the decisions they made........I guess not having made a difference is painful, but it should not be......it is just memories......those who fail to look back and learn usually end up lost.

Those who spend their time living in the past usually die there long before they breathe their last breath.  Teo

EVERYBODY makes a difference. Some good, some bad.

but EVERYBODY makes a difference.

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. wrote:EVERYBODY makes a difference. Some good, some bad.

but EVERYBODY makes a difference.

Not true. Some people make no difference at all. Good or bad.