The Glade 4.0

We have no idea if the San Diego Chargers will go to the Super Bowl this season, but from a sheer class perspective, many of their fans proved to be world champions during the team's preseason contest versus the San Francisco 49ers on Sept. 1. During the game at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, a Club Level server by the name of Heather Allison tripped on a stair, and all the money she'd taken in for the day — about $1,000 — flew out her hands and landed all over the area — on fans in attendance, under seats, and one level down in the lower field section.

Instead of doing the full-on "Ocean's Eleven" money grab, the fans' first instinct was to let everyone in the vicinity know just whose money it was. "All my customers began screaming over the railing to the people below: 'That's the server's money,'" Allison, a mother of four and full-time student, recalled. Club level fans started collecting the money in their section, as did the field level patrons. In the end, Allison got back every bit of the money she inadvertently lost, and pocketed $170 in tips for the evening after giving the concession company its cut. "It was all there," she said. "Chargers fans are amazing. We're like a family."

It's a great story not only because a mother of four got all her money back, but also because of the connection fans have to the people who wing hot dogs and peanuts at them from the aisles, and satisfy their urges for a lemonade or cold beer on a fall day. The emotional remembrance given to longtime Seattle vendor Bill "The Beerman" Scott a few years back was but one example of that connection. No question — there had to be people in those sections who knew Ms. Allison, and had to know just how much that money meant to her. It's a great part of the fabric of the gameday experience.

Kudos to you, Chargers fans.

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Naw, they would have just reveled in the shadenfreude and clucked their tongues, saying that if she had lost everything, she would have gotten what she deserved, that she should have known to take better care securing her money. Obviously.

Naw, they would have just reveled in the shadenfreude and clucked their tongues, saying that if she had lost everything, she would have gotten what she deserved, that she should have known to take better care securing her money. Obviously.

Allison, a mother of four and full-time student

She has a full time job, four kids and is a full time student? I'm more amazed that she's still clinically sane. When does she sleep?

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Its called pride and self-respect. You should try it some time.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

I've never seen anything from Xeq indicating he's unwilling to work hard. I think you're unfairly extrapolating from policy views to personal habits (not that I think Xeq's policy views are anti-work either, but whatever).

Nobody wants to go work at McDonalds because that admits failure far worse than going on welfare. On welfare you're just waiting until the economy gets better or your luck improves. When you go to work there, on a full-time basis to support yourself, you have basically admitted that you are a failure at life and will never amount to anything.

Why would you take a backbreaking labor farm work job for minimum wage when welfare pays you more for doing nothing? The only reason anyone would take a minimum wage job full-time is potential future advancement opportunities, and in that kind of manual labor position there is none.

I'm not actually in favor of minimum wage, honestly. I find it kind of redundant when welfare pays you more for doing nothing - nobody is going to work full time for minimum wage.

I am completely amazed that people from southern California would do this.

I don't see anything in the latter two which reflect on Xeq -except that he is a rational observer of human motivation.

I don't take each statement someone makes individually, I use as many of their remarks as I can to create a picture of their views. Based on his repeated statements, I see someone who would take welfare over a minimum wage job - someone who sees working for their pay as being more shameful than collecting welfare. YMMV

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin