Inspiration

Several years ago while working at the county jail (where I still work) I was locking down the inmates for the night and one man didn't want to get off the phone. After several attempts to get him to hang up the phone failed, I switched it off.

About two nights later I was working the same wing and the same inmate called me over and said that if we were on the street that wouldn't happen.

I said, “Ya, you've got that right! I would have no reason to tell you to get off the phone and if I wanted to use a phone I would go and find one.”

He had nothing more to say.

Contributed by Cybersalt subscriber, John P. V.

"Live for the applause of nail-scarred hands."

- Mark Batterson

I guess I must have been poking through the cards for an awful long time, lingering from one card to another, because the clerk in the Hallmark store came over and said, "Sir, is there a problem?"

"Yeah," I sighed, "I can't find one my wife will believe."

"When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you."

- Walter Payton