A Senseless Act of CourtesySee the Wall Street Journal article, below.
GENERAL INTEREST
Autumn colours and Mexican Catrinas: Monday's best photos
https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2018/oct/22/autumn-colours-and-mexican-catrinas-mondays-best-photos
Kindergartner parties alone after no one shows up to birthday bash (Spoiler Alert: It has a "happy" ending.)
https://nypost.com/2018/10/23/kindergartener-parties-alone-after-no-one-shows-up-to-birthday-bash/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app
Dunkin’ Donuts Unveils Home that Runs on Recycled Coffee Grounds
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/dunkin-donuts-unveils-home-that-runs-on-recycled-coffee-grounds?pl=pl-the-latest
The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/hamilton.php3
HEALTH
Autumn colours and Mexican Catrinas: Monday's best photos
https://www.ecowatch.com/natural-medicine-doctors-prescribing-outdoors-2614316041.html
Plastics have entered human food chain, study shows
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/afp-plastics_have_entered_human_food_chain_study_shows-afp/category/news
Thanks, TM ...
BUSINESS
What I Learned About Young People While Trying to Buy a Car
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2018/10/23/what-i-learned-about-young-people-while-trying-to-buy-a-car-n2530939?utm_campaign=inarticle
ENVIRONMENT
Are EV battery plants creating more pollution than EVs eliminate?
https://autoweek.com/article/green-cars/will-some-gas-and-diesel-cars-still-produce-less-pollution-evs
METEOROLOGY
China’s Melting Baishui Glacier Could Spell Trouble for Billions
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/chinas-melting-baishui-glacier-could-spell-trouble-for-billions-0?pl=pl-the-latest
Hurricane Willa Forces Thousands to Evacuate Along Mexico's Pacific Coast
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-10-23-hurricane-willa-mexico-impacts
NATIONAL SECURITY
Trump Blows The Whistle on Russian Cheating
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/inf-nuclear-treaty-russian-violations-us-committment/
CARAVAN
Anyone wonder just why the so-called “”caravan”” of illegals from Central America just miraculously decided to get together all 4000-7000 of them at the same time and start to walk via Mexico to America so as to arrive at election day? Weird, huh?
This whole thing stinks of Soros and Steyer…………
Caravan could save GOP: 'Manna from heaven' for Trump
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/caravan-could-save-gop-manna-from-heaven-for-trump
Here's how long it takes to walk from Mexico's southern border to the US
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/heres-how-long-it-takes-to-walk-from-mexicos-southern-border-to-the-us
New Poll: Voters Want the Caravan Invasion Stopped at the Border
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/10/23/new-poll-voters-want-the-caravan-invasion-stopped-at-the-border-n2531133?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809
IMMIGRATION
Illegal immigrant families set record in 2018; top 100,000 for first time
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/23/illegal-immigrant-families-set-record-2018/?bt_ee=rWW644T66TakkhwbMpxw%2BCKrt%2BkkYq1ca66E1bP98%2BAU7b4LYP26WjviQJbGJtWA&bt_ts=1540319752691
Trump trolls Democrats on immigration: 'I agree with President Obama 100%!'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/23/donald-trump-uses-obama-clip-troll-democrats-illeg/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=Z07PEgA1rPy3MkxHZpBirKabJLaf1dHeUb%2FCHj8zLZEpJBAoow4GS8VF2JKovt24&bt_ts=1540345380867
KHASHOGGI
Trump calls killing at Saudi consulate 'worst cover-up ever'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/412808-trump-calls-killing-at-saudi-consulate-worst-cover-up-ever?userid=288549
US to revoke visas for Saudi officials over Khashoggi killing
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/412819-us-to-revoke-visas-for-saudi-officials-over-khashoggi-killing
TERRORISM
Reading the body language of a crowd
https://eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com/2018/10/reading-body-language-of-crowd.html
SCOTUS
Sandra Day O'Connor Reveals She Has Dementia
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/10/23/sandra-day-oconnor-reveals-she-has-dementia-n2531127?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809
POLITICS
Latest WaPo poll: GOP has narrowed gap; Dems now hold statistically insignificant lead in battleground House districts
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/balz102318.php3
Records: Andrew Gillum Lied about Favor from Undercover FBI Agents
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/records-andrew-gillum-lied-about-favor-from-undercover-fbi-agents/
New Polls Show Heidi Getting Crushed in North Dakota, Donnelly Trailing in Indiana
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/10/23/oh-my-two-new-polls-show-democrat-joe-donnelly-trailing-in-key-indiana-senate-race-n2531158?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809
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FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-senseless-act-of-courtesy-1539989147?emailToken=adf65d04b24b86b7720496340080a46ePQVQZ4jNryb4runMZ/E4YHK3ZPJLdYHYeI9i/d0EvowXi+/6zeHSWa41/zCd0NfcqgHJphEp6mSK5nAsCMxu5w%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share
A Senseless Act of Courtesy
In an empty parking lot on a Sunday morning, an elderly couple decide not to hog two spaces.
A Sunday morning, in the parking lot of a multibuilding office complex near a freeway-exit hotel where I’m staying in Ohio.
I’m walking, out for a couple of hours of exercise, hearing the sounds of my own footsteps. The lot is deserted. It’s a Monday-through-Friday kind of place, and today there’s no one around.
I’m walking, out for a couple of hours of exercise, hearing the sounds of my own footsteps. The lot is deserted. It’s a Monday-through-Friday kind of place, and today there’s no one around.
A car pulls in. I see that a medical facility of some sort seems to be open. That’s where the car is heading. The parking spaces, none of them marked as reserved, are set off by white lines. The driver—a man who appears to be in his 70s—parks. He slowly gets out, and his wife exits on the passenger side.
Photo: iStock/Getty Images
Theirs is the sole car in the lot. Maybe the doctor has made special arrangements to meet them here today. Perhaps 40, 50 or 60 of those white-lined parking spaces sit empty. Hundreds of other parking spaces are unoccupied in the extended complex. The people working in the medical office must have private spaces behind the structure, because their cars aren’t visible.
The couple start toward the building and she asks: “Are we too far over?”
He turns and looks at the car he has just parked. His tires on the driver’s side are extending over the painted line next to it. But just barely.
“You’re right,” he says. “We’re in someone else’s space.”
He walks back to the car. He unlocks it and gets in. He starts the ignition, backs up, then pulls into the space again so his tires are all the way between the lines. It’s clear this is not some sort of obsessive-compulsive habit. It’s a gesture of courtesy for someone he will never meet—someone who will almost certainly never show up.
“Better?” he calls to her from the window.
“It’s good now,” she calls back.
He re-emerges.
No one would have known, not in this empty lot. No one would have minded that his tires were over the line. He wasn’t inconveniencing other motorists, because there were none, not on this Sunday morning.
But here were a man and woman who you sensed play by the rules, all the time. The idea of not reparking that car would never have occurred to them. Maybe it’s a generational thing; maybe not. All I knew, as I saw them walking together toward the office, was that they had just made my day a little more buoyant. Those one-second decisions: whether or not to do something the right way, even when it’s so small, even when it doesn’t matter. They entered the building, and I wished I knew them.
Mr. Greene’s books include “Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights.”
Photo: iStock/Getty Images
The couple start toward the building and she asks: “Are we too far over?”
He turns and looks at the car he has just parked. His tires on the driver’s side are extending over the painted line next to it. But just barely.
“You’re right,” he says. “We’re in someone else’s space.”
He walks back to the car. He unlocks it and gets in. He starts the ignition, backs up, then pulls into the space again so his tires are all the way between the lines. It’s clear this is not some sort of obsessive-compulsive habit. It’s a gesture of courtesy for someone he will never meet—someone who will almost certainly never show up.
“Better?” he calls to her from the window.
“It’s good now,” she calls back.
He re-emerges.
No one would have known, not in this empty lot. No one would have minded that his tires were over the line. He wasn’t inconveniencing other motorists, because there were none, not on this Sunday morning.
But here were a man and woman who you sensed play by the rules, all the time. The idea of not reparking that car would never have occurred to them. Maybe it’s a generational thing; maybe not. All I knew, as I saw them walking together toward the office, was that they had just made my day a little more buoyant. Those one-second decisions: whether or not to do something the right way, even when it’s so small, even when it doesn’t matter. They entered the building, and I wished I knew them.
Mr. Greene’s books include “Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights.”
Appeared in the October 20, 2018, print edition.
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