Dis 'n Dat

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Although I forgot to sign my name to this cartoon,

please don't swipe it.  ( actually I DIDN'T forget, at first I looked at quickly and noticed that my name was not on the right bottom side of the drawing, where I usually place it, but didn't discover my error until AFTER writing everything else below ) 

I appreciated the fact that in the past when this occurred, my collegue and friend,

Eli Stein reminded me to be careful and always sign your stuff because people will "borrow" it and use it unauthorized but , but alas, I am forgetful sometimes . .

When this happens, and I see it,

 ( Which HAS happened, twice ),

I send the alleged guilty guy an Email and warn him, just like Liam Neeson did in " TAKEN " . . I tell the party: ( very politely ) . . . " Listen, carefully . . . Sooner or later, the chances are, unfortunately, you would meet a guy like myself. 

 I have been trained for 30 years at this, please stop immediately in authorized use of my material . . . If you do NOT, I will hunt you down until I find you.  I know how to fix it. "

Amazingly, both times the offending parties were very apologetic and nice and contrite, AND immediately with a smile, like a knee-jerk reaction, obeyed my suggestion. 

 I won't mention names, but one of the parties gave me a $75.00 credit to use in buying merchandise from their company ! ( Along with a personal apologetic phone call

from a Vice-President of the huge corporation in the Bahamas.

It is amazing the power of words and their effects.

I think I would have liked to be known as a "wordsmith",

if there WAS a real occupation like that . . .  

In Wikipedia, it woud say:  - Roy Delgado: Ex-Marine, Entrepreneur, sign painter, cartoonist, writer, student of psychology, motivator, wordsmith, philosopher. 

I think I'd like that . . .  Hey, maybe even engraved on the marble headstone on my last resting place, who the Hell knows?

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Which reminds me of a true story I heard years ago,

it stated that one guy had engraved on his headstone:

" I TOLD you I was sick ! "

I love it.

You can't make this up.

( or maybe you CAN )

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" When we begin to take our

failures non-seriously,

it means we are ceasing to be

afraid of them.

It is of immense importance

to learn to laugh at ourselves. "

- Katherine Mansfield, 1888-1923

NEW ZEALAND SHORT STORY WRITER

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