“One of my little girls in my group came up running, ‘Help me! Help me! Help me!’”

I had a crisis and I felt really bad, but I was watching some children and one little girl -- Oh, I stopped all of my group of kids to tell them, "Please, keep your hands to yourself." This is something I tell my preschoolers all the way through high school students that I work with, "Keep your hands to yourself. It's so simple. Respect each other's space. And it's for your own safety and it's for other people's safety." So I no more than said that and we started down the hallway and this little girl, one of my little girls in my group, came up running, "Help me! Help me! Help me!" And she was bleeding from her eyebrow, from where her eyebrow was on her forehead. And she's just screaming and could not calm down and, you know, the whole thing. I said, "What happened?", when she was able to talk, I said, "What happened?" [She] says, "Well, I hit the wall." And I'm pretty sure that the whole time I was telling this, she wasn't paying any attention to me about keeping your hands to yourself. And I think they were horsing around and she went into the wall because, because they were horsing around and, and had their hands on each other. So it's just -- that was just my thing yesterday. It was very tragic. It, you know, wasn't tragic tragic, but it was sad. Had to call home, had to send her home. And, hopefully, she'll learn her lesson a little bit, but I just feel bad for her. But it took a long time to get her calmed down and a long time to get her cleaned up. And, and I had some support from other people. But, it was, it was a rough experience. Not one of my better days at work.

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“What’s the difference between a comet and a meteor? Well, they’re fairly similar.”

What's the difference between a comet and a meteor? Well, they're fairly similar. They were both British jet and aircraft in the early stages of jet aviation. The de Havilland Comet was the world's first jet airliner. It entered service in 1949 and was well-liked but suffered from some accidents early on because of structural integrity problems and so on. The Gloster Meteor, on the other hand, was the first British jet fighter airplane, the only Allied jet fighter to actually take part in World War 2. Entered service in 1943, wasn't groundbreaking aerodynamically, but it was fairly successful as a combat aircraft. So that will be the difference between the comet and the meteor: one was a jet airliner – the first jet airliner, one was a jet fighter plane.

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“I’m gonna tell you about the time that I didn’t meet Daryl Hannah.”

I'm gonna tell you about the time that I didn't meet Daryl Hannah. It's got a good ending in the end. So, when I was living in Virginia, there was a movie being filmed at a place about an hour away from where I was, called Smith Mountain Lake. I can't remember what it was called, maybe What About Bob or something? I never actually saw the movie. Anyway, Daryl Hannah was in the cast, and we had heard rumors that actually, that they were in the area and since, I dunno, I guess Lynchburg where I was was maybe the closest big town. I don't know if they were staying here or what – we didn't know the whole story but we heard she was around. Well I was out at the bar with some friends and they -- in came Daryl Hannah in a group of four people. And the rumor whipped around the bar. Or, I shouldn’t say the rumor, the news that she was there whipped around so fast, it would’ve been a very interesting study in group dynamics because, ’course no one wanted to say anything really loud, so the people would say like, under their breath like, “Oh my gosh I think -- isn't that Daryl Hannah over there?” and you could just see that everything got kind of like hushed and people were like doing furtive glasses – glances, and the whole energy in the bar got really weird for a minute and then they found their table and they just sat down and they were really tuned into each other and not looking around at all. Because I think they'd seen the fuss that was made. So, conversation in the bar kind of recovered and, I can’t remember who exactly I was with, but it was like a big enough group and some of the guys were posturing in this really dopey way like, “Oh,” like, “I'm gonna ask her to dance,” you know, or – I can't remember specifically what it was, but it was just really -- a lot of the guys were just really obnoxious about it. And, but here's the thing. A good friend of mine who went to a nearby college had always been a huge Daryl Hannah fan. He had a picture of her from the movie Splash like up in his room in the fraternity house, and just made…

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