Don't Take Me Seriously - Book - Page 74
ESCAPE Weekly
Oct. 16 - Oct. 22, 2009 – 16
Sweat the small stuff
Doing the right thing is nondenominational
“In this life we cannot do great things. We
can only do small things with great love.”
— Mother Teresa
line would seize up and heads would roll.
However, as I was finishing my dozen,
one of the burgers slipped off into the
grease trap — disgusting. Now, these days
will never forget it.
you’d probably be watched by at camera
Call it karma, justice, what goes
to keep you “honest.” I was under no such
around, comeuppance
pressure and I needed my 12,
or neener, neener, neener.
so I fished the burger out of
This one, small bad deed I
the grease trap and put it on
did immediately came back
a bun and sent it up front for
to haunt me. I was like, 18,
some poor schlub to enjoy.
and working at McDonald’s
(Well, I did scrape off some
(ancient times), and was
of the blackened chunks
manning the hamburger
first.) Thus works the teenage
grill. Things we’re all based
mind. Repercussions are
on 12, so I cooked 12
unimaginable.
Jim Walker
burgers and someone else
No sooner had I
Don’t Take Me Seriously
toasted 12 buns, etc. Trust
completed this terrible
me, you did not want to turn
act against humanity
out less that 12 at a time. The assembly
than my supervisor told me to take
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Do you know where your burgers have been? You have to hope your cook believes in doing the right thing.
lunch. And for us, that meant eating
McDonald’s food for free.
Can you see where this went?
Yup. Forgetting my evil deed, I grabbed
a burger, soda and fries and went to the
lunch room. Naturally, I got the grease
trap burger. I knew it at the first “crunch.”
I swear I heard God laughing.
At the time, I just figured I was
unlucky. But it did spark a real belief in
“just deserts.” However, in rethinking
it, I realize I might have actually been
very lucky. What if a customer did bite
into that burger? What if he showed the
manager what he received? I could have
lost my job.
Now that’s the selfish view of
repercussions or karma or whatever.
But what if there were no direct
consequences to me? What if that schlub
ate the burger, didn’t realize he’d been
“poisoned” and got terribly ill a few days
later. I’d have gotten off scot-free, but my
act of negativity would have swelled into a
real crime — in this world and, I believe,
in the next.
Which brings us to the point of
today’s rant.
Do sweat the small stuff. Therein lies
our humanity. Most of us won’t stop a war
or save someone from a shark attack. But
every day we have multiple opportunities
do the little things.
Pop Quiz Question 1 (Answer fast,
don’t think.):
You are walking across a parking lot
and see a big nail on the asphalt. What
do you do?
(A) Remember where it is so you can
avoid it when you drive out.
(B) Throw it into a nearby planter.
(C) Throw it into the recycle bin.
(D) Shove it into the empty piercing
hole in your belly button.
To my thinking, both C and D would
be good. Answer A means you’d be leaving
the nail for someone else’s tire. But why
not choose B? Because, later, a gardener
with a Weed Eater might accidentally
whip the nail out of the planter and send it
through someone’s forehead.
Too much analysis? Maybe. But not if
you live in fear of the grease trap karma
rule or see Mother Teresa’s face floating
over your pillow at night.
Pop Quiz Question 2 (Answer fast,
don’t think.):
See WALKER page 18
