For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 25, 2024

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    Asharah  10 months ago

    Mike is in for a surprise……

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    Macushlalondra  10 months ago

    He looks like he’s been around a while. He’ll probably be a very interesting interview.

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    mischugenah  10 months ago

    The unassuming ones always have the most fascinating stories.

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    snsurone76  10 months ago

    I guess there’s nobody “human” whom Michael knows.

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    dlkrueger33  10 months ago

    I’ll bet this old guy has had a very interesting life!

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    bigger Nate  10 months ago

    He’s got a lot of stories in him and a lot of them should remain buried

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    cracker65  10 months ago

    And so it begins.

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    kathleenhicks62  10 months ago

    That man will make a more interesting story than Michael himself.

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    French Persons Premium Member 10 months ago

    I’m surprised the prof didn’t just give him an “F“ for failing to do the assignment.

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    AmissaSada  10 months ago

    I love hearing what more experienced people remember, about how things were and what they did to survive, the twists and turns in their lives. But I’m a sucker for true stories too.

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    Foob  10 months ago

    Don’t do it, old man! Everyone knows you can’t trust the Media!!

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    USN1977  10 months ago

    There was the story of a janitor at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs whom the cadets got to know. They found out he was a veteran who won the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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    James Lindley Premium Member 10 months ago

    Probably the most interesting person on campus.

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    BamCat  10 months ago

    Does anyone remember the old TV show Lou Grant? I loved that show. There was an episode where Rossi bet Lou that he could pick any random person on the street and write an interesting article about that person. He ended up with a woman who (if memory serves) ran a soup kitchen and had to rummage through garbage bins looking for viable food to meet the need.

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    Aviatrexx Premium Member 10 months ago

    For nearly forty years, I’ve attended Airventure, the world’s largest aviation event (over 10,000 aircraft and 677,00 people over 11 days). Early on, I discovered a rule. The old guy staring at a warbird, flew one over Germany in the ‘40s. The grandmother chatting up a Stearman pilot, wing-walked on one when a young woman. The grandfather who was shuffling his maps while getting ready to depart, invented the process for treating fabric-covered wings that everyone now uses. The young lady who doesn’t look old enough to vote is flying left seat for a regional airline. Her older sister flew choppers in Iraq. None of which I would have discovered if I hadn’t just starting chatting with someone who didn’t look at all out of the ordinary. My Airventure Rule is, “Everyone you meet is bigger than they seem.”

    I think Mike is getting ready to discover that, and it will make him a much better journalist.

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    John Jorgensen  10 months ago

    Wait, is this actually going to run in the student newspaper, or is it just a project for the class? I know it’s a journalism class, so there will be significant crossover, but I can’t imagine the paper has space to run every paper submitted by every freshman taking English.

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    mindjob  10 months ago

    The janitor at my HS was an old guy who always smoked a pipe. I don’t remember him ever talking to anybody

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    bilbrlsn  10 months ago

    Wel done. This has promise.

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    g04922  10 months ago

    Yeah, Mike may be onto something here.. A human interest story about one of the ‘invisible’ employees on campus. He may have had a very interesting life before working at the University.

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member 10 months ago

    Janitors can provide you with the latest dirt, Michael.

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member 10 months ago

    In the Classic Dilbert comics that are no longer available, there was a trashman who was the forerunner of A.I. (All-knowing Individual). Do not underestimate a person for what he does. Some geniuses walk around us undiscovered.

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    cipactli77  10 months ago

    And at this particular moment, the janitor became the most important person in the world to Michael.

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    EMGULS79  10 months ago

    Next time, write your personal experiences in the third person. Unfortunately, too late to do that for this assignment.

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    MFRXIM Premium Member 10 months ago

    His first valuable lesson, so far. To be continued?

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    saylorgirl  10 months ago

    There you go Mike!

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    Seed_drill  10 months ago

    I remember a janitor having to come to my dorm room after my stereo cabinet exploded (another story in and of itself). Turns out he was from Meadows of Dan, VA, the same community my mother was from. I played him some Flatt and Scruggs and we talked about Merle Watson’s recent death.

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    howtheduck  10 months ago

    MIke being Mike, “Yeah … I was the first person I thought of.” Words to live by.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  10 months ago

    That janitor will be more interesting than anybody Mike ever met, including his own parents

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