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发信人: icecap (冰蓝), 信区: English
标 题: Life is Like a Cafeteria
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年03月28日14:49:49 星期五), 站内信件
A friend'd grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being proc
essed at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria in lower Manhattan to get
something to eat. He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take
his order. Of course nobody did. Finally, a woman with a tray full of food
sat down opposite him and informed him how a cafeteria worked.
"Start out at that end," she said."Just go along the line and pick out what
you want. At the other end they'll tell you how much you have to pay."
"I soon learned that's how everything works in America," the grandfather
told a friend. "Life's a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want as long
as you are willing to pay the price. You can even get success, but you'll ne
ver get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up
and get it yourself."
--
Everyday we have
is one more than we deserve
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