well how do you feel about it
well uh
i don't have any strong convictions about it that's for sure um
i know i haven't done any Peace Corps service and
i don't know anybody in my immediate family that has or you know has ever even thought about it do you know uh do you know anybody that's been it
no the the only people i know that have done anything remotely like that are people that have gone to be missionaries
and that's only because i went to Baylor and a lot of students from Baylor go and and serve as missionaries during the summer
but i think i think that's a terrible idea that's like forcing someone to donate to a charity
yeah
i mean it it's nice to to try to teach young people some
some uh
uh
civil uh consciousness
but forcing them to to donate basically their time and efforts
yeah it's definitely up to the person uh so
i'd have to say that uh
it you know the people who do it
well some feel it's rewarding i don't know you know
but uh
i don't know how we got the subject you know i have nothing to say about this
it it
i don't either
i don't either i was i almost hung up because i thought well gosh i don't i don't really have an opinion except for no i think that's dumb
um-hum well how long you been in San Antonio
but uh
i've been here for um just uh almost five years well no almost four years
okay
and i lived with Dana in school
okay
that's how we know each other
and uh you you were just up there then huh
uh-huh last weekend we went to Six Flags Saturday
uh
oh okay
yeah a good old time
well that's good
well back to the topic at hand
what other types of community service would they be talking about i mean the the recording mentioned the Peace Corps
well it sounded like i mean this is like major long term commitment like a year or six months or
yeah
so you're looking at the Peace Corps or sabbatical maybe or you know i don't know i mean but uh
i mean i'm all for donating my time to worthy causes like i do some
volunteer work here and there and every once in a while i'll do uh a uh local Big Brother Big Sister thing
um-hum
or i'll go you know do a
but that that time is minuscule compared to what what it sound like they were referring to
yeah
yeah i i couldn't possibly commit a year or two of my life
to to go do something
yeah yeah they couldn't cover my hourly rate
i couldn't afford it
no kidding
but uh
i have this thing against bugs too and seems to me like the Peace Corps they send you someplace that there's a lot of bugs
yeah Africa
a lot of
yeah
have to live in a shack with no air conditioning and no medicine and no anything i'd probably catch a terrible disease and die
yeah well i doubt that but you know i guess
well i i mean it would it would have to be tough going somewhere you don't know
the culture usually i guess i think that maybe that's why some people do it is
yeah
uh to see the other cultures or you know and some of that but
um-hum
uh to do that i don't know i'd have to be
i don't know
oh i don't know either the other growing up all i knew was
oh
you go to high school you you know you work you go to college you get out of college and you get a good job and you work and and none of this you go spend two years in the Peace Corps to expand to broaden your horizons
um-hum well you know uh i know American Express i'm now i'm working at American Express now and they
uh-huh
after a certain amount of years of service these employees can take off
like six months or something for some type of sabbatical or some you know some something like that
uh-huh
and
they're allowed to take that time off and then come back where they left off
oh
so it is something that i think
uh
you know even the larger organizations will support uh
it's really it's really for the community to give you know to to give back to the community type of thing
i'm for
i don't know
pretty it's for yeah i think at the same time it's for some people to
you know help them grow in other areas
kind of like joining the military
well i mean in that respect a lot of people join the military to to grow up
yeah maybe
and to decide what they want to do and the Peace Corps or something like that is probably useful as as that kind of a time
yeah maybe a little bit in that perspective but uh
i know a lot of people that have gone in the military i mean in you know when they're in the college
sometimes it's to support help support college you know the money
um-hum
uh others people don't know what they want to do
but as far as uh
you know the Peace Corps
i guess i suppose there's a few people that have done it at that point in their lives
but i think a lot of it's you know when the people get older they'll do something like that
i'd probably have a different perspective if i actually knew someone that had gone into the Peace Corps
yeah i i i don't
but i don't and none of my
didn't mean to cut you off there
oh that's okay none and none of my
really close friends in college went off to be missionaries or anything so i don't really know anyone first hand that's
that's committed committed a chunk of their life to do service work
everybody i know has been well i'm going to go get a job good job and make some money and buy a nice car
uh
i know
so
or try or try to make a living
yeah
but uh yeah i i have no
i don't know anybody that's that done that either so
i it's it's interesting we got this topic because i i i don't know what i marked off to get this but
i certainly didn't mark off anything to get this one
i can't i can't imagine and the switchboard's been down for several days and the last time i called it before it went down
i had this topic and i didn't feel like talking about it so i hung up and i guess they they keep you on the same topic until you actually talk to somebody about it
so you had the same one huh
yeah
oh well well you you'll get it over with here
i know it
how many times have you talked
oh probably five or six
yeah
not a whole lot
oh i've done maybe four or five
yeah did Dana sign you up for this
well she just sent me the information out i
i got a hold of it you know i just sent it back in and
yeah that's she stuck my name on some list so they mailed me the information
that i filled out
what other topics have you had
well that's pretty
um i've talked about camping with someone i've talked about the weather
great great
that one was interesting because i talked to a man in in Washington DC
and it was hot here and it was snowing there so that was pretty interesting
um-hum
and i talked to someone about the uh
the uh education system
i forget exactly what the focus was on that one but that was fairly interesting
and i've talked to somebody about credit card usage
yeah
and and i talked to this person who
i gathered from speaking to her that that she and her family just didn't have much
and they didn't have much credit available to them
um-hum
and so she basically didn't use credit cards and didn't know very much about them and how they work and
and how you can use them to your advantage and and how you know you
hm
yeah i always
you can do certain things with them
i use everything with my Visa and i pay it all off so that's a good deal for me i get free money for thirty days so
yeah
yeah
that's the way i use them uh i try i try to make sure i don't get in debt so
yeah
yeah
well that's always a good plan
i can't think of anything else that i've talked about
all the the most most of the ones on the list i checked off stuff like football and and stuff that i can i i would enjoy talking about
and i haven't gotten a one of them yet when i've called
i had uh let's see i've had fishing
and uh
i can't remember
me and
i think me and Dana had football yeah we did
oh how funny
yeah uh we so we talked about the Cowboys a little bit and
i'm out here in Phoenix so we talked about Phoenix Cardinals and
um-hum
so so that one was all right and then what else i had
i think i had some other uh
like staying in shape or working out this other guy i got this guy from New York so
i had to talk to someone about hobbies
and
the switchboard called me so i was caught a little off guard and i couldn't think of anything at all
so i started making stuff up
i told this woman that my hobby was gardening
and i can't even i can't even grow an ivy my grandfather gave me a plant once that told and he told me when he gave it to me that it was impossible to kill you could freeze it you could
and you've probably never gardened in your life
you could dry it out no matter what you couldn't kill it well i killed it pretty quick
yeah i don't i don't have too much of a green thumb either so
i do have one plant here it's been hanging out for a while but i think it's one of your easiest plants i can't i don't know the name of it but
i'm not too much into
