Dogshit and Diamonds
The speaker was a gruff retired marine who’d gone through a
rehab that used my workbooks. He recognized me from my picture on the back
cover.
“I really liked something you wrote,” he said, shaking my
hand.
I beamed as I waited to hear what eloquent pearls of wisdom
had touched his heart.
He said, “If you were broke, and you knew there was a big
diamond under a pile of dogshit, how many piles would you lift?”
Right. Of all the quotes in all the workbooks, posts, and tweets,
this was the one he remembered. And I'd used a more polite term in the workbook.
I nodded, remembering what that quote was about. “You may
have to listen a lot to hear the wisdom you need.”
Today I’ll look for the diamond, no matter what it’s under.
Fawlty Showers 2
is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you
might know is purely coincidental.
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