bummer, good sport though glenn

Send it to the liberal press Glenn and attach a note which reads “Here is a new fish bowl you can live in.  It should be large enough to hold what is left of you in a couple of years”.

Glenn this is a lesson to be learned by all people; while the treasures we gather about us for the sake of history and lesson, all can be lost by the smallest of actions or a moment of inatttention carried out by another. Thus your Orson Wells fishbowl went into the night as a treasure, and the historical papers you speak of should, when not absolutly needed, be kept in the vault.

Chalk it up as a lesson learned. One all of us can draw upon.

I’ll give ya about… TREE FIDDY!

Glenn is too good, I would have fired the cleaning person, he or she lacks common sense. How could some see some so extraordinarily and dirty in Glenn’s dask and not ask the question why? Does Gleen keep filty thisng on his desks all the time? I think not. This person ought to be fired.

Glenn, what kind of dummies do you hire, that would clean that off?  Sorry to offend someone, but that was bone-headed.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.  lol

It would appear that the Obama administration did the same thing to morals and values as your cleaning lady did to the fish bowl.

Interesting that Glenn likes Orson Welle  since he was a supporter of Roosevelt and a huge supporter of progressive politics.

Sad to lose an archive of a great creative spirit, but an accident is an accident.  I bet she feels terrible now her mistake has been made public, hopefully she won’t take any mean comments to heart.    

Glenn….Next time put the fish bowl in the temperature and alarm controlled box that you got the super secret historical artifact for Restoring Love Event debut.

Glenn…perhaps it was meant to be.

I understand the joy it brought you but it still was a fishbowl.

At least you can HONESTLY FEEL GREAT ABOUT your cleaning staff..feel joyful that they are working hard…even when you are not watching.

—The Real Deal from Chris Steele –

Man! I just wish our cleaning crew was as thorough as yours Glenn….thank your lucky stars….

Ahhh, the mistakes that are made in the name of good intentions. 

Use this as a learning tool, Glenn.  You know, along the lines of how that cleaning person had good intentions and the best of hearts when she did what she did.  Kind of like a lot (if not all) of our so-called social programs.  Social Security started out with good intentions, as did welfare and so many other things.  Now those good intentions have put us in a box that it appers no one is brave enough to get us out of.

I’m sorry for the loss of your treasure. But a part of me hears Orson Welles chuckling — grin!

I would not want to be the cleaning lady right about now, she has got to feel mortified!   It’s one thing to make a mistake but to have it broadcast to the world *oy*  I hope both of you can recover!  Who knows, perhaps the bowl might become a teaching tool and even more valuable than it was before!

Beck paid $686.Fishbowl $686http://natedsanders.com/LotDetail.aspx?lotid=2129 Current BiddingMinimum Bid:$100Final Bid(Includes Buyers Premium):$686

 Throw in a signed copy of your new book and we can bid on it. I can keep M&M’s in it…

Oh ouch… Google search for “Orson Welles fish bowl image” provides a link a few lines down from that auction.  Glenn paid $686 for this thing… and now it’s worthless!  Ouch.   Freaking ouch.

At the very least it looked like children’s artwork and any cleaning person in their right mind should have left it alone. Perhaps it is time to make sure all cleaning people wear the glasses they need.
 

Give her a raise for going above and beyond today so you can feel good about firing her next week for destroying a prized treasure.

Chalk it up as a lesson learned. One all of us can draw upon. http://MsnGetAmazingWork.notlong.com

Whale of a FAIL.

Well Glenn what did you expect, you left it out in the open as if it weren’t of any value and so someone treated it as some old dirty piece of glassware. I too have lots of collectibles and I treat them as if they are gold and keep them in a safe place. I wouldn’t dare leave them for other people to handle……not even my husband!!!!

Glenn from the looks of it….. I think Orson Welles re purposed an over head kitchen or bathroom light shade……. it’s got that thick lip in just the right place for the screws to hold it on a light……… probably a good idea to put anything of historic value locked in a display case……
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I have my own tale of creative destruction of an antique….. I had a nice Mission style book case not long after getting married and moving into our home my wife decided to surprise me ….. she painted it PINK! …… Like you I knew she meant well so I did not let on about the damage she had done….. a year or so later we were watching the Antiques Roadshow and she saw a book case in it’s original finish and heard what it was worth…… She looked at me and said I guess I screwed up painting it…. I said yeah….. she asked why I hadn’t said anything at the time?  I told her the damage was already done she thought she had done good and I loved her more than a piece of furniture .

Glenn, you are so understanding.  Gotta love you.

But see now the fishbowl has a double story…Someone will be bidding on that (clean) bowl again some day. 

The fault lies with Glenn all the way. Paying $686 for a fishbowl should be protected like the treasure it was. Leaving a dirty bowl on top of your desk only invites the cleaner to clean the office as usual. The maid did a good job!

I’m sure Glenn your heart is on the floor.  You are too kind.

Material things come and go.  Be thankful for what you have.

I cannot work for you Glenn..I am always thorough…my house is clean and neat…even at work I am very detailed…a very important “skill” in my kind of work that is why my boss considers me an asset…

Aw crap. 
That sucks. 
Sorry Glenn.

Something else will show up, truly.

2 Peter 3:10. Sorry Glenn. :/ Keep it in perspective: It’s all going to burn in the end anyway. None of this stuff will last when God lays the planet bare and restores it. “But the day of
the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will
pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent
heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.”

i wish we had a cleaning crew to clean our white-house out of all the dirty communists!!

Really Marie??!! We have all made mistakes in our lives. Who are we to judge?? Life is too short so enjoy the ride!

she more than likely can’t read english had no idea who it was i bet…

 Or actually a triple story kind of Jen! lol

glenn, that’s a candy dish.  fill it with cry babies — you won’t regret it.  get them at the dollar store.

AND maybe you should’n't have people in your office who you do not know.  after all, you’re glenn beck.

You’re one in a million, Glenn. You didn’t fire her or make a spectacle of her. You turned her mistake into a compliment and shouldered the fault of it. While this isn’t always the way out of a situation (example: Obama apologizing for the US), in a case like this where you, specifically, lost something that had that much personal value, it takes a strong person to see it merely as a stroke of misfortune, find a way to see something positive about it and move on. I might disagree with you on occasion, but little things like this are why I feel I can trust that you are a person of  merit. Thank you for validating my opinion of you once again. 

Ok, now reset.

Come on folks!  It is only an object.  Collecting objects bring us joy, but in the end they are only objects.  Treating others with dignity is of far more value as a treasure than a broken or damaged object.  I have a hope and confidence that Glenn Beck recognizes that reality.

The real problem is the person that trained her.  This never should of happened.  Empty the trash, pickup dirty coffee cups, snickers wrappers, leave the rest alone unless specifically told other wise. All the hell raising the the world won’t bring it back, but this is a tragedy. 

I know it’s a sad event to have lost the signature and the little hand-painted on fish, but at least you still have the bowl, Glenn. You still have the knowlege that Orson Welles owned it. I hope that can be enough.

GB you have a good heart.

Cleaning crews are “BONDED.”  Report the $$$ Loss and the insurance will reimburse you for your loss.  Unfortunately, the artwork & history are LOST.

Orson Welles surviving Artwork, worldwide has now increased in value due to the lost artifact.  You have a great story to tell your grandkids! 

And, some how, if Orson Welles was still around, he would be amused at the value placed on his “Doodles.”  Sorry for your lost.

More evidence that art classes, especially art appreciation, needs to be put back in the schools. Get you son to paint some new images so in time and along with your fame, it should be worth something again.

The fish bowl was still Orson Wells’ fishbowl.  That’s gotta be worth something!  ”Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal (or cleaning ladies clean)  Matthew 6:19-20.

Thats pretty harsh Marie.  Glenn, Just sign the bowl and one day it will be worth more than what you bought it for.  You are on the tip of the spear sir.

Aw, that really is too bad.  A hard lesson to learn.  Sorta like the old joke of a woman baking

a cake for the P.T.A., going away to change her clothes and returning to find her husband had

just finished eating a big slice of it.  What to do?    In that case, I would cut the cake into in-

dividual slices and wrap each one separately—presuming this was for a cake sale.

Then deal with the husband when I returned home.  Nothing lethal, but we would be enjoying a

nice dinner out with a baby sitter for the kids.      As for the fishbowl, do the kids like goldfish?

SPAM ALERT   Flag this.   Go away Flora and take your spam with you.

You’re a good fellow, Kabar.

I never said it would be easy…I just said it would be worth it……You are practicing what you preach Glenn. Many years ago you would have reacted differently, as I would have too.  Your a good example of how we should react to things that go bad. Lesson learned. Your a good man Glenn. I feel honored to have met you several times.

You, sir, are an excellent role model as a husband. Actually, as a human being in general.

To all of those people who are saying things like, “She probably can’t read or speak English”: you should all be ashamed of yourselves. Stop acting like ignorant bigots. I was under the impression that the people who like Mr. Beck are above such childish behavior. Leave the ignorant speech to the Left Wingnuts, please.

Mr. Beck, I am glad that you did not reprimand your cleaning lady. She obviously was doing her best to do her job well. I am sorry that you lost the part of the fish bowl that made it so special to you, but remember what the Lord said about being attached to worldly possessions:
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven…” Matt 6:19-20 KJV

I’m not suggesting that you take a vow of poverty, as I’m sure some smart alec is going to try to spin my post to be. I am simply saying that we put too much *value* on items. The people who say they would have fired the cleaning lady- why? For doing her job, and trying to do it very well for her employer?

Matthew continues on to say, “No man can serve two masters… Ye cannot serve God and mammon”. Matt 6:24

Too many people misquote the Gospel when talking about wealth. The verse has been twisted around over generations to the popular saying, “Money is the root of all evil”. That is NOT correct.
“For the LOVE OF money is the root of all evil,” 1 Tim 6:10 (It is not capitalized in the Bible; I did that for emphasis.)

Perhaps this was a lesson from the Lord Jesus Christ that we ALL need to put more value on our faith in God & our interpersonal relationships and less value on *things*?

Just my humble opinion.

Although the specifics of Matt. 6:19-21 don’t apply, the spirit does.  “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth……….

$686

$686

I was thinking the same thing about the light fixture/fish bowl. I have the same type of covers in one of my old apartment houses. What you did for your wife was very sweet:)

Orson Welles wouldn’t have kept it in a dirty state. Your cleaning lady Restored It to its full glory and left some space for you to add another drawing to it. 

I just hope she doesn’t go down in history and daily remarks as the ‘fishbowl lady.’ What i know of Glenn, she probably was a person who needed a job and otherwise does a good job.

That is one nice fish bowl.  oh so clean.  wonder what she used to clean it with?  Glenn, it is merely a material object.  Perhaps you paid a large sum.  However, this incident has shed New light on people who did Not know about Orson Welles and your admiration for him.
I suggest this can be a great learning experience about a man who influenced your life so strongly.  keep sharing what you have learned from him and that will be the BEST legacy.  

Good Heavens! I hope you’re being sarcastic. I wish my children would so “lack common sense” that they willingly cleaned everything in sight.

Amen Jeffrey! After your kids lose their common sense and start cleaning, will you send them to my house to help them lose theirs? he he he

KUDOS TO YOU GLENN,YOU HAVE PROBABLY MADE HER FAMOUS WITH YOUR APP OF GRACE.

Glenn, I am glad you kept it in perspective. I don’t care whose signature was on the bowl or how much money it was worth because in the end it’s just a fish bowl. You obviously realize people are more important then things, especially their feelings.

I can relate, I sell very old and unusual things (some one of a kind) on ebay and go to Auctions and Estate sales to purchase them. I would have been mortified.  I once bought a  perfect 1930′s pink depression water pitcher and when I was loading things into the car it fell out onto the pavement and shattered, granted it was only around $18.00 and not thousands, but I learned a lesson and moved on.

Here’s how it looked originally: http://natedsanders.com/LotDetail.aspx?lotid=2129

Glenn you should of put the fishbowl in a LIberty Safe!

So now Glenn needs to buy a goldfish or turtle and name him Orson and keep him on his desk as a living reminder of this life lesson.

That will teach you to encase in glass things of importance….oh….the youth and their lessons!
You didn’t fire her, did you?

Glenn, when handed lemons……….paint it yourself, sign it, auction it. You can called it “the former painted fish bowl signed by Orson Wells” now painted and signed by Glenn Beck. I sure a fan would cherish it as much as you were planning on.

Glenn, you are one classy guy!  I’m so impressed by your attitude towards the person who made this mistake–you have shown such a Christ-like attitude even though I’m sure you’re very upset about it.  Good for you!  And you know God is so proud of you!

Honestly, though, it wasn’t her mistake.  How was she supposed to know?  She saw a dirty item and probably just ran it through the dishwasher.  The mistake was not leaving a note on it, which he already said in the article.  Just pointing out that it doesn’t make Glenn special that he didn’t rant and storm; it makes him a regular good person.  Someone who tried to take this unfortunate story and make it the housekeeper’s fault…would be a giant jerk.

Really, Marie?  Remind me never to work for you.  Wow.

Exactly.  Things, even to history buffs like me who get sentimental about books and oddments that represent people or events and whatnot, are never as important as people and relationships.  This story about the fishbowl and the overzealous cleaning lady is epic and a history all on its own.  This woman who cleans Glenn’s office is more important than a fishbowl…no matter who painted it.  Glenn recognizes that and has the class to laugh at himself (and her) because he is a decent man with his priorities in order.

A message for all friend’s family and stranger’s
I have lost some very,very important thing’s in my 50yr’s on this rock we call home ,My pastor told me when I was 20yr’s after one of my so called friend’s stole my signed Steve Garvey baseball mit !
There will be NO   U-haul truck at my funeral to put my thing’s I had collected throughout my life in the hole I will rest in until my name is called by our LORD(I hope I have done well) it was excellent advise because a few year’s later my X wife tore up my autographed L.A.Laker’s 3 peat season picture (BY the whole  team !!! ) it keep me from doing something stupid!!
So goes life I still have my memories !
Be Blessed
                1KINGFORALL

Amy – true on all points; I would love to see Glenns work on the fishbowl.

You are more forgiving than me (but I guess you also have a lot more money than me). Well, I would forgive her, but I’d also hold her responsible. I looked at the original, and anyone who doesn’t realize that the bowl was not just a ‘dirty fishbowl’ is not too bright. It was quite clearly painted and signed, so even though she is just a cleaning lady, she is also a bit incompetent, no matter how well meaning her action was. 

You know, for someone who is constantly preaching about the truth and advising others to seek out the truth, Beck sure loves to believe and live the lie of Abraham Lincoln.

I have worked as a custodian in several places and businesses. One cardinal rule is: NEVER TOUCH anything on the  boss’ desk!!!! (Actually, at many places, if it’s on a desk, it gets left alone, no matter what it is.) Dusting is OK, but if there’s even an old burger wrapper, it gets left on the desk. Sorry, but I would probably fire her. If she had been a long time staffer, perhaps a rundown on the rules.

Scenario, A dirty object is on the desk, it wasn’t there yesterday. Do you wash it? Or do you  put a note on it that say “Do you want me to clean this?” and wait for the NEXT day? MOST cleaning people will take method 2.

It’s too bad about the value of the fish bowl—but I was wondering about the nationality of the cleaning lady as I think that anyone from this country and of a certain age would know the name Orson Wells or wouldn’t just go ahead and wash off the decorations of anything.

I hate to say this but knowing many cleaning crews in my days of working and running businesses are all one mistake away from being fired with many just trying to do the right thing …..but it’s kind of emblematic of what’s going on in the nation. Can’t communicate with a quarter of the people and half of those you can aren’t listening. They HEAR you but don’t listen.

Half of it’s one one page, and the other half are on their own page and not leaving IT anytime soon.  150million Chiefs and not ANY Indians.

Oh, I feel your pain, but I agree…all you can do is laugh and look at it as “stuff”.  Stuff doesn’t matter in life.  Your treatment of the lady that did it is what matters, and you did a good job.  Take it home, put a fish in it & enjoy it that way!!

Glenn, I am so prud of you that you can be the man we should all aspire to be if the same thing would have happened to us. I know things like that have happened to me and I know what it took to not go ‘ off the deep end’. You’re a real “Mentch”. God bless you!

Oh God, I feel bad for laughing now. Sorry, Glenn, we lose some, and we lose some A LOT.

By being so nice about this you have probably succeeded in making the cleaning lady feel really rotten. Seriously, I think you shouldn’t have even talked about it today.  Dig deep and see the real reason you did.

I’m not just sorry. I understand your grief I really do. Three years ago, my wife Harriett at age 46 died from a seizure and the image of giving her cpr while I waited on the medics will not be erased in this lifetime.
  About a year ago, I was vacuuming under the sofa, when the vacuum head caught an extension cord. As I retracted the hose, I saw a hidden power cord coming with it. In my peripheral vision I saw something moving, but the distance was too great to reach and in a moment it smashed on the floor and shattered!
  What I had saw moving in slow motion was a ceramic lighthouse sitting on an end table; one of several gifts Harrie had given me the first Christmas we spent engaged to be married the next year. The lighthouse gift just amazed me because she had remembered; and what I thought was such a tiny gift had meant a great deal to her. It was just costume jewelry but I liked it, a small inexpensive little gold lighthouse pin with a tiny diamond for a light.
    It seemed like an eternity as I watched the fragile lighthouse tumbling to the floor, the top breaking into ten or more pieces. I sat there for a minute – then started shaking and grieved for several hours, thinking, ‘so this is what a breakdown is all about’. Someone is going to find me out of mind sitting on the floor next to a vacuum and broken ceramic. After sticking my head under cold water for a couple of minutes, I gathered my wits, picked up the pieces and tucked them away in small box. Then I set the lighthouse back on the end table with the top missing; found the little switch and the light came on!
   I know how much that fish bowl means to you, but it is not broken, it’s just faded a little and now it has a story that you and Orson can laugh about in a place where fish bowls, lighthouses and people can be renewed by the Master Craftsman of the universe.
With all of our love,
Don & Harriett

Smyrna, Georgia, 20120623SA