>>>>>>Did all the Bushes who were magically admitted to Yale get preferential treatment?
>>>>>>No maybe about it. W was a low C student who never would have made it on his own.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm sure at some point in your life as a parent you implemented a "swear jar". (I know my parents did it for us)
>>>>
>>>>Never heard of that. What is is?
>>>
>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swear_jar
>>
>>Swearing is very therapeutic. Now that my daughters are grown up, I began swearing in front of them. The older one already swears in front of me too; the younger one is still too shy to let some f bombs go :)
>
>I'm glad it works for you, but I think it doesn't for me
>As a teen I was thrown in with a bunch of GI's who couldn't formulate a sentence without a few choice expletives.
>For a while, I was with some Aussie GI's and those guys.. wow!
>To be one of the boys, I went along with it and picked up the habit.
>That changed later.
>After my discharge I was fortunate to work as a caddy at a wealthy golf club on Long Island while going to college.
>I was caddying for a group of men and one of them let the F bomb go.
>The other three players stopped him in his tracks and demanded that he apologize to them and to the caddies in the group.
>Shamefaced, he apologized to all of us individually and we all accepted his apology. This was a very wealthy man apologizing for being disrespectful to some caddies who could barely afford gas money.
>That action on the part of that man was the classiest thing I've ever seen on a golf course and I've never forgotten it.
>Thanks to him, it became obvious to me that one of the simplest ways to show respect for the people around you is to use respectful language.
>Now and something slips out, but when it does I regret it and apologize.

Interesting story.