Two short stories with life lessons for reflection

1. Story To
Reflect Upon
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Super Granny!
An elderly lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car,
found four males in the act of leaving with her car. She dropped
her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream
at them at the top of her voice, "I have a gun and I know how to
use it!
Get out of the car you scumbags!"
The four men didn't wait for a second invitation but got out and
ran like mad, whereupon the lady, somewhat shaken, proceeded
to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the
driver's seat.
She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the
ignition. She tried and tried and then it dawned on her why. A few
minutes later she found her own car parked four or five spaces
farther down. She loaded her bags into her car and drove to the
police station.
The sergeant to whom she told the story nearly tore himself in
two with laughter and pointed to the other end of the counter,
where four pale white males were reporting a car jacking by a mad
elderly woman described as white, less than 5' tall, glasses, and
curly white hair carrying a large handgun.
No charges were filed.
(True story!) Author Unknown
Reflections
* When one is forgetful and lacks mindfulness, one can do
foolish things.
* May we strive diligently to train the mind to be always alert,
attentive, heedful and mindful.

2. Story To
Reflect
Upon 94
Joseph Lister
In 1844 a medical doctor named Ignas Phillip Semmelweis,
who was assistant director at the Vienna Maternity Hospital,
suggested to the doctors that the high rate of death of
patients and new babies was due to the fact that the
doctors attending them were carrying infections from the
diseased and dead people whom they had previously
touched. Semmelweis ordered doctors to wash their hands
with soap and water and rinse them in a strong chemical
before examining their patients. He tried to get doctors to
wear clean clothes and he battled for clean wards. However,
the majority of doctors disagreed with Semmelweis and
they deliberately disobeyed his orders.
In the late nineteenth century, on the basis of the work by
Semmelweis, Joseph Lister began soaking surgery
instruments, the operating table, his hands, and the
patients with carbolic acid. The results were astonishing.
What was previously risky surgery now became routine.
However, the majority of doctors criticized his work also.
Today we know that Lister and Semmelweis were right; the
majority of doctors in their day were wrong.
Source Unknown
Reflection
* The majority are not always right.
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it
is still a foolish thing.
* Just because the majority believe one
thing does not necessarily mean it is
true.