Saturday August 30th,2008
it was another exciting day of work at apple.. extremely busy day, People just packed in the store waiting to be helped. i was in the back of the store checking people in for there appointments, and there was this couple that comes up to the desk, i asked " do you guys need any help with anything?" the replied "no thank you" and the man looks at the I-Mac that is on the desk and is captivated by how vibrant and clear the screen is he says" how beautiful is this." i say " yea it is such a nice screen it kinda just draws you in, you can play around with it if you like the Internet works on it and everything." so he does. he gets on the Internet and checks his yahoo account. he reads the latest news that is on there it had a post about "Gustav" the hurricane that the news has been saying just might hit New Orleans again.. so he reads the title and says " man how sad it looks like Orleans is gonna get hit again" i look at him and just get kinda sad cause i know how devastating it would be if they did. and i don't remember how it came up but i ended up finding out he was a Police Officer. now he said another name that when i heard it i knew it was important..but i just cant remember what his position was. we began to talk and i found out he actually was in Orleans a day after Katrina had hit.. we talked for about half hour we talked about police work in general, our government, Guns, the looting and sadness he saw when he was in Orleans, and the over all negatives and positives about This Country. One thing that stood out to me about this man is when he looked at me and said " Don't believe everything you hear on the media.. cause it did not take us 5 days to get to Katrina.. i know this because i was there 1 day after Katrina hit i saw people getting helped by the brave officers that were there. i was on duty from 6am to 12am every single day for a hole year, i saw helicopters in the air picking people up, dropping officers down i was apart of all that..the thing that people don't understand is that all the drug dealers were taking back there turfs shooting at random, killing people at random." and this really changed a lot of my perspectives on things. so with this said.. whatever your views are about this country bad or good at the end of the day there are people that are greedy, sleazy and will take full advantage of the less fortunate. but there are still some good people out there trying to stay true to themselves. and tho's are the people i support from here all the way to japan. To me positive has no color, gender, or relgious thought they are as simple as the word.
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