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Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo
November 2, 2009
In This Issue
o A Penny On The Ground
o Say Something Good
o Points To Ponder
o A Little Humor
o Quote of the Week
A Penny on the Ground
I found a penny on the ground as I was taking a walk the other day. I seem to find a lot of pennies lately. People no longer lose them. They throw them away on purpose. I’ve seen young children refuse to take pennies in change at the corner store. They ain’t worth nothing, they’d say.
My oldest recollection is of my Grandmother giving me a penny when I was very young. It was during the great depression and I really didn’t know what a penny was for but is was shiny and I clutched it in my tiny hand. I cannot remember my Grandmother at all. She died shortly after giving me that penny and I just cannot picture her face. I remember that penny though. My folks told me to save it. That saving pennies was a good things to do.
I saved pennies and then dollars and then I saved hundred dollar bills.
On my 21st birthday I bought my first car. It was a 1950 Ford two door sedan with a radio, heater and white wall tires. I paid cash for it with twelve one hundred dollar bills.
Those pennies had added up.
I just wonder if that child who refused those pennies change or whoever threw that penny away will ever pay cash for a new automobile.
There are recurring rumors that the government might do away with the penny as a piece of currency. I hope not, for it was the pennies that I saved that led to dollars and hundreds and thousands and it all began with that simple lesson that my parents taught me when I received that first penny. That saving pennies was a good thing to do.
Say Something Good
Halloween in Hillsborough. Gosh it is great to see a little town booming. Last night the streets of Hillsborough, NC were filled with good people just having a whole lot of fun together. There were large groups of people making home tours of many of the old homes reported to have or to have had ghosts that visit. The quaint little bars and restaurants were crammed full with revelers and up and down the streets the children were filling their bags with treats. At the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church there was a Haunted Organ Recital by Vlad the Impaler with such numbers as Come Sweet Death by Bach, Tales from the Crypt Theme by Effman, Danse Macbre by Saint-Saens and The Hut of Baba Yaga, the Witch by Mussorgsky. At times like these it is so good to be an American. May God bless America and keep our troops from harm.
Points To Ponder
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it. Walt Disney
A Little Humor
Almost Andy says, “Being Almost Andy is like being almost pregnant. It just isn’t the real thing.”
Quote of the Week
To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will. Sugar Ray Robinson
Recommended Reading
The Platinum Rule by Art Fettig
The Age Old Secret to Happiness and Prosperity. If you believe in the Golden Rule then, just maybe, you are one of those fortunate few who are ready to take a giant step forwaqrd in your lives to fame, fortune and a great new plateau of personal satisfaction.
Art Fettig has identified a little known key to wealth and happiness in his book The Platinum rule. I hope that millions of people discover this little book and apply this giving formula. Trul their lives will be enriched and certainly this will be a better world.” – The Wickman Formula, Executive Press 1991
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