tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post5306981433771876981..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: $20 In FlightDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-63268580416529047102016-02-06T19:47:52.944-05:002016-02-06T19:47:52.944-05:00Hi Dave,
I found this blog post very touching an...Hi Dave, <br /><br />I found this blog post very touching and it really made me think. Sometimes having someone give you something maybe the thing they want to do, you don't always need to give back. Its amazing how many honest people there are out there who probably need the things we have more than them but they give back to us. I find your blog very inspiring and I hope you continue to do what you do. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-30867947869553650832016-02-06T15:12:34.357-05:002016-02-06T15:12:34.357-05:00Hi Dave,
I am new to your blog and have thorough...Hi Dave, <br /><br />I am new to your blog and have thoroughly enjoyed reading your daily posts. This blog spoke loudly to me as the message is one we can all be guilty of forgetting. I wondered right away what I would've done in the situation had it been me. Truly, I believe I probably would have given him the money, but sadly I have to admit it would not for the right reasons. I would have given him the money because I am a shy person and would have felt to bad to accept it back. It wasn't until I read your words about what allowing him to give the money back to you did for him that I completely understood the message of this blog. This man did not need charity as much as he needed that moment to show that no matter how he looks on the outside he is a human being, and an honest human at that. I sure hope those teenagers learnt the lesson from witnessing it as I learnt from reading about it. <br /><br />Looking forward to reading and learning more from your blogs,<br />Shyann M.S. M.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-31259697108600404982016-01-25T12:47:18.960-05:002016-01-25T12:47:18.960-05:00beautiful post, Dave. Thank you.beautiful post, Dave. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-6652595022301069872016-01-25T03:30:11.507-05:002016-01-25T03:30:11.507-05:00Love this. Sounds like you had a good read on the...Love this. Sounds like you had a good read on the situation. And since you see the gentleman often in the area, you will have an opportunity to recognize him later. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-50580804817774656212016-01-24T13:47:33.356-05:002016-01-24T13:47:33.356-05:00Respect, honor, dignity, forgiveness, love - these...Respect, honor, dignity, forgiveness, love - these are some of the true riches of life. <br />Money enables commercial exchanges, for material goods that are needed for physical well being, comfort, and pleasure.<br />Having money and being rich are not the same, at all. <br />You share some of your experiences traveling in this world in your writing here, and I am grateful that you are teaching me. <br />Perhaps the teens and the security guards will take what they saw and heard and did that day and consider it again, and choose differently next time. <br /><br /> clairesmumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-82194926273079019112016-01-24T11:57:58.052-05:002016-01-24T11:57:58.052-05:00I can't stand it when people pick on someone w...I can't stand it when people pick on someone who isn't in a position to push back. I remember going to Disneyland with my parents. Some older boys started shoving the person in the Mickey Mouse suit. The people in those suits aren't allowed to respond to provocation at all, or they lose their jobs. Even if it's self-defense.<br /><br />My mother, who normally avoided confrontation, lit into those boys. She told them exactly what she thought of them and exactly what their choice of actions said about them, and she did it with a small child in tow. When she was done, they slunk away. Mickey reached out and without a word--because that set of characters also is not allowed to speak--shook her hand.<br /><br />Sometimes, selfish people need to be reminded that we all are human, no matter what our exteriors suggest. I'm glad you and the other man were able to show that to those kids. Hopefully they'll remember this lesson.Tragic Sandwichhttp://www.tragicsandwich.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-6751548785929096492016-01-24T08:54:06.603-05:002016-01-24T08:54:06.603-05:00Dignity is worth more than money. Way more. You ...Dignity is worth more than money. Way more. You did the right thing. Classic "Dave". ❤️Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12527926041729913404noreply@blogger.com