Student suggested that description of me in class. I suggested if anyone would know what a blockhead was, he would. Got a good laugh. He didn’t try that again.
Of course he wasn’t the only one, but having preceded my teaching career with years as an entertainer and comic emcee in clubs and advertising rep, I had already been insulted and laughed at in so many venues, those kinds of shots never bothered me.
Suggest the real danger fear is based on the immediacy of the moment. Anxiety seems to be a kind of fear of possible future events. But that’s just my version.
The ‘no shore line housing rule’ should have been enacted 100 years ago. But the money from sales and taxes was too good to pass up. Now they are finding their ‘stock’ is shrinking in a way that can’t be changed. But they like to learn the hard way. They tried bulkheads, groins, raised dunes, and riprap, all of which just delayed the obvious long enough to fill their pockets with gelt. Now the piper is tuning his flute for the dance.
Guess one betting factor is just how many workers they can dump one month before their retirement is fully vested and permanent. Has been a typical ploy since Adam bit the apple.
Decades ago I parked in store lot that had a pedestrian walkway between facing cars. Worked really well. Doubt it would go now because the walkway would shrink the number of parking spaces.
Student suggested that description of me in class. I suggested if anyone would know what a blockhead was, he would. Got a good laugh. He didn’t try that again.
Of course he wasn’t the only one, but having preceded my teaching career with years as an entertainer and comic emcee in clubs and advertising rep, I had already been insulted and laughed at in so many venues, those kinds of shots never bothered me.