You may know I’ve got the page on my blog with all the e-mails we get that we secretly love but pretend to be annoyed by…well this one is so good it gets main page billing!
I absolutely love this one…… AMEN!
*Father/Daughter Talk*
>
> * A young woman was about to finish her first year of
> college. Like so many others her age, she considered
> herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and was very much
> in favor of ‘the redistribution of wealth.’
>
> She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather
> staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based
> on the lectures that she had participated in, and the oc
> casional chat with a professor, she felt that her father
> had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep
> what he ; **thought should be his.
>
> One day she was challenging her father on his opposition
> to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more
> government welfare programs. The self-professed
> objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be
> the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded
> by asking how she was doing in school.
>
> Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a
> 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it w as tough to maintain,
> insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load
> and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go
> out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t even
> have time for a boyfriend, and didn’t really have many
> college friends because she spent all her time studying.
>
> Her father listened and then asked, ‘How is your friend
> Audrey doing?’
>
> She replied, ‘Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes
> are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a
> 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a
> blast. She’s always invited to all the parties, and lots
> of times she doesn’t even show up for classes
> because she’s too hung over.’
>
> Her wise father asked his daughter, ‘Why don’t you go to
> the Dean’s of fice and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your
> GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That
> way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that
> would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.’
>
> The daughter, visibly shocked by her father’s suggestion,
> angrily fired back, ‘That wouldn’t be fair! I have worked
> really hard for my grades! I’ve invested a lot of time,
> and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing
> toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!’
>
> The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently,’Welcome
> to the Republican party.’*