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Originally Posted by oracle80
GPK, I'm Catholic but grew up downstate in a heavily Jewish area. My best friends in grade school, middle school and high school were all Jewish. You gotta love the dark and sarcastic sense of Jewish humor. I always have.
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GPK,
I grew up in a similar place as Mike. Teaneck, NJ. Lot's of Jewish kids as friends.
Now, a little story...
I was getting married to my first wife, needed a diamond for her engagement ring. So I called up one of my high school friends, who's dad worked in the diamond center.
Hey, can you get me a nice diamond?
He said, come on over. I'm there in minutes.
Now, he's twenty-two years old, wearing jeans, just like me.
So I say, "Do you have a diamond for me?"
He reaches into his pocket and takes out a little packet...spills them on the table and says, "Pick one out." It looked like a huge pile of rock candy.
So, we start sorting.
I say, "How much are these worth?"
He says, " One and a half million, or so."
I say, "How come you carry these around? Are you at all scared?"
He says, " My family never knew when there would be a knock on the door in the night. We had to be ready to take everything we had in a moment."
End of story, he gave me a great deal on a perfect stone...and a huge amount of respect for what his people have been through.
btw...that sense of humor has kept their sanity through the difficult times, and in the "good times"...no better people to be around...even for this goiam.
DTS