The Good Banter Thread

[koiguy1969]

the guy at 30 seconds in...looks like Tom Hanks....lol
[edit]...oops...just watched with volume...no wonder it looks like him!!!

 

[koiguy1969]

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[sissy]

stripper dog take it off

 

[koiguy1969]

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[koiguy1969]

YOUR GOING TO WANT TO READ THIS: it's from a facebook posting.... quite heart warming
So I was just on my way to work and I had to stop for gas so I allowed myself some extra time to get to work. When I pulled up... to the pump I shut my car off and saw this middle aged man crying looking at the gas pump. I began to wonder what happened with this man and as I got out of my car and looked at him my heart felt like it stopped.

In Apple Valley, Minnesota it is 10 degrees and freezing cold with the wind. This man was wearing flip flops with socks covered in holes. I look I his car and see his wife in the front seat covering her face in her hands and the 2 teenage girls both of cuddling under a blanket in the back seat.

I didn't even think and I went up to the man and said sir is something the matter? He looked at me and I could tell he was on the verge of giving up because he didn't even try to conceal his tears when he said I can't even provide for my family.

Without even thinking I put my card in his machine and tell him Jesus Christ the Son of God died to provide for you. Fill up. Something, something came alive in him. He was in shock and it was like he forgot how to pump gas.

In that same moment his wife got out of her car, she asked her husband what was going on and he told her I just payed for their gas she started to cry and came around the corner to shake my hand when I saw her pants dirty and torn. I asked her to come to my car.

The airport lost some of my luggage on my way to MInnesota from California and I had to clean out my closet to find stuff to wear and get rid of a lot of stuff all of that stuff that I had yet to give away was siting in the back seat of the car and in the trunk. I opened up my car and told the lady to take what she wanted.

This lady RAN back to her car. I was so afraid I had just embraced her but a moment later her and her two girls were digging through those clothes layering my sweatshirts and shirts and sweat pants over the worn out clothes they had been wearing.

Soon the father had finished pumping the gas and came over. This attracted a little crowd at the gas station. An some older man gave the family a cub gift card and another middle aged man gave away his jacket to the father. Never in my life did I think I would see this kind of thing happen at a gas station with a handful of complete strangers.

But it gives me hope. That the love of God can be so contagious. That we are not alone in being the change we want to see in the world. That God's love is greater than anything and we get to be a part of that love changing lives. And HE always provides!

 

[j.w]

Why do I always run out of LIKES when I need them? Anyways I LIKED a lot of these posts Tmann(walmart video............laughed a lot on that one!) and Koiguy especially the gas station one!

 

[koiguy1969]

insightful!

 

[sissy]

thats why I never judge anything or person as it may come back to bite me in the butt . :razz:

 

[j.w]

Oh look what I found,there are more photo's if you click on the links but his one was fitting for our forum:

Made from flowers in Holland , since 1936!
What began in 1936 as a flower parade has become the oldest and most celebrated ode to blooms in Europe ...
Ever since its inception, Zundert in the Netherlands has hosted an annual flower showBloemencorso, with an average 50,000 visitors descending on the town to look at the brilliant displays.
Creators use dahlias for their breathtaking displays and build gravity defying sculptures.



Something fishy about this: Bloemencorso saw this elaborate fish display, which saw a shoal of fish whirl around each other - even using light-coloured dahlias to shade in the light bouncing off the eyeballs
Each of the competing districts of Zundert - which was the home of Vincent Van Gogh - construct their own entry and compete in the parade, which occurs every first Sunday in September.
According to those behind Bloemencorso, the parade is all the work of dedicated volunteers, who do not profit from the colourful display.
A staggering six to eight million dahlia flowers are used to produce the floats.
Visit http://www.bloemencorsozundert.nl/ for more information.

 

[addy1]

Wow how beautiful!

 

[koiguy1969]

jw,...COOL STUFF

 

[Big Lou]

Seeing that parade float reminds me that so many of the worlds fishes are, in themselves, natural works of art. Just one more example of how mankind is blessed.

 

[Big Lou]

Here's a really loud shout out to Colleen for winning photo of the month! )

 

[callingcolleen1]

What?? I won something??? Wow never won here before so I am very happy!! Thanks guys!!

 

[koiguy1969]

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