LEGACIES

As you think back to sitting (or standing if you closed your eyes) in my class while I droned on and on about two-dimensional motion, gravity or waves your brain cells were screeching “WHEN WILL I EVER USE THIS???” We have ALL been there and it is a process that continues throughout your lives. An important step however is to be sure to recognize when something someone has said or done to help you, actually does. That being said, I am asking you to consider something.

Send me a keychain, school pennant or bumper-sticker with your name and year on the back.

WHY????

	You are at college and you do something and suddenly realize that it was easier to do because of something I taught you.  Now I get paid to teach you things, but I toss in a lot of 'extra' stuff that you might not get anywhere else.  So if you think you used some of my 'extra' stuff then walk to the college bookstore and pick up a little keychain, school pennant or bumper-sticker with your college logo on it.
	Or you are sitting next to someone in class and you know how to do the problem AND you understand the concept and they have no idea what is going on while you sit back and calculate how much they are willing to pay for you to tutor them... Send me one...
	Or you are in an argument with someone over something that I warned you people would argue about (ex: the temperature of the metal chair leg vs. the wooden table surface...) and, because of the extra stuff that I teach, you are able to win the argument and reduce the person to intellectual slag.  Ask the bartender if they sell keychains, and if they do then send me one.
	Or you are simply doing something (sitting at a football game or watching a movie) and one of those horrible times I warned you about happens where you start to think “If he kicks the ball with an initial velocity of 42.5 m/s at an angle of 38* to the ground he can make it” or I ruin a movie for you and your date because you feel compelled to point out that the 85 lb runway model balancing in her high-heels on a telephone wire shooting a Desert Eagle 44-Magnum semi automatic one handed at a deranged sumo wrestler couldn’t possibly have sent him flying through the air off of the top of the building as he falls to his horrific death impaling himself on the awnings and their pointy gables below because of the law of conservation of momentum! (If you do that you should start looking for another date…try match.com!)

Write your name on the back (and the year you graduated) and put it in an envelope addressed to:

Mr. Carbone's wall of impressive knowledge,

Forest Park High School

15721 Spriggs Rd.

Woodbridge, VA 22193.

I will permanently mount it to the wall behind my family pictures, and in future years when I tell people "This will be real useful in college" they will know that I'm not just making it up! Stop in someday and see it : )

Thanks….what are we on now Tom, 4,072? “Again” just doesn’t do it justice!

Yeah, I couldn’t have said it any better so ya gotta love that cut and paste thing!