The Famous Paul Harvey Riddle

Paul Harvey quotes:

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse.
For my grandchildren, I'd like better.
I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches.
I really would.

I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.

I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.

And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.

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It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.

I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.

Image is of my dog

I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.

Image is of my grandson

If your sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.

I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.

On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.

If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.

I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.

When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.

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I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy\girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.

May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.

Image is of my granddaughter

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I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go
fishing with your Uncle.

Image of Grandpa and Bubbie

May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.

I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hannukah/Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.

Image is of my grandchildren

These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

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Written with a pen. Sealed with a kiss. I'm here for you. And if I die before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you.

Send this to all of your friends. We secure our friends, not by accepting favors, but by doing them.

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The email ends this way:

P.S. You won't believe this, but forwarding this might give you the answer to the riddle. Send this to others and then press shift, after you send.

Once you press your shift key, you will understand the riddle.

Hint: what happens on your computer screen when you hit the shift key?

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When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors.

The Riddle: What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?