TalkBack: Semper fi, riding at night, cleaning schools, do unto others

Semper fi

To the man who wants to know what "Semper fi" means - to Marines it's "Semper fidelis." That's Latin for "always faithful." If the Parris Island program took, you are a true Marine, and every Marine, regardless of color, creed, whatever, is your brother. That's why we say "Semper fi" to each other. Hello, brother.

Riding at night

I have a comment about the bicyclists. It is 7:30 at night, and it is dark, and I just passed a bicyclist on a four lane highway, Highway 19, wearing black clothing and hardly any reflective light. This is very dangerous. This is why bicyclists get run over.

Cleaning up schools

Well, well. I just had to call. I wish I was as smart as my grandchildren think I am and as some of these people who call TalkBack think they are. This is an answer to maintenance workers in Saturday's paper about cleaning up the high school. Whatever happened to the maintenance workers? They're still there, but maintenance workers don't clean up; they fix things. I can't believe you didn't know that. Janitors clean up, but we don't have enough money to pay enough janitors to clean up so the students are cleaning up their own mess, and the parents are helping them, bless their hearts. And you know, I don't have any kids around here, but I'm thinking about going up there and helping them. I think it'd be great. Why don't you come up and join us, and we'll tell you and explain in more depth what a maintenance worker does and how much they earn, which doesn't put them in a category of cleaning up.

Do unto others ...

I think I'm fixing to start working on trying to get a law enacted that reads something like this: "Whatever you do to somebody else you get the exact same thing done to you." What do you think?