HERESY

...someone's going to react to this post by calling me too-"preachy," -- but sometimes, I gotta say what's on my mind. So, forgive me, but I saw a couple of things today that made me feel I just had to post something.

There are people...PEOPLE...who keep the world up and running.

Some of them you don't see - think: the hotel maid, the dishwasher in the five-star restaurant, the guy who paves the road at 2 in the morning.

There are others you do see - maybe the airline flight attendent, the retail salesclerk, your usual barista. People who might be the face of the corporation - answering your questions about their policies -- but never settting them. The people who take the brunt of the punishment when something goes wrong.

What I'd like to say is - they're people. People like all of us. Maybe they're putting themselves through college. Maybe their parents had to sneak past border guards to get here. Maybe they just didn't get the same breaks we all did.

Anyway, they're PEOPLE-with feelings, families, and worries - like the rest of us. And personally, I think it'd be nice if all of us remembered that.

Whether we're tipping them, or just interacting in some way with them.

So, as Forest Gump would say, "that's all I have to say about that."

This post is dedicated to my new friend, Mr. Slawson, who recommended the book "Us and Them" to me. Facinating read. Glad someone took the time to read it, to think about it, and to recommend.

And now back to more snarky bloggy matters.