Younger people can’t know how ordinary the extraordinary used to be to Americans, competence, and excellence were merely normal, from the woman at the bank window to the men putting a golf ball on the moon, to the owner of the hamburger stand making burgers you remember to this day.
Amen Brother!
Well said. But, just a note: Alan Shepard did not putt a golf ball on the moon. He drove it several country miles...one handed.
Agreed, and it’s something I try to help them with by showing them how it’s done. Example was last Friday. Had to go to the bank to sign some Trust documents. Four hour drive. The bank had insisted that I sign in their office. Emailed Thursday to let them know I’d be in around 10:00 the next morning if that worked for them. Nope. Nobody there could help me at that, or any other, time Friday. Called them. Young kid/assistant mngr. He did his best to carry out his assigned duty of letting me know I was high and dry. In a friendly but unmistakably firm way, I explained that it was a banking day, the bank was open for business, and I, as a well-established client, simply wished to conduct some very straightforward banking business and didn’t that sound reasonable? We agreed that yes, it did, and he made it happen. Hopefully a lesson there for him, but Jeeezzzisss.
DEI has been dealt a blow with the (partial) resignation of Claudine Gay. I’m not saying that we’re done with it completely, however. It’s an industry.