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We’re pretty responsible. Once our buddy asked us to watch his turtle, and when we totally forgot and it wandered away, we responsibly told our friend three weeks later. ...Okay, fine, we’ll watch the video. And yeah, he found the turtle. It was taking a road trip across the U.S. in a VW. It was weird.

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Maybe i s responsibility Allah shma our buddy dan here

00:04

is the president of the school's interact club as president

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dan's in charge of scheduling the monthly trip to volunteer

00:10

at a local soup kitchen He's supposed to send out

00:13

a schedule organized rides by the food and collaborate with

00:16

the soup kitchen He's supposed to do that But dan's

00:19

not used to being in charge of anything You figure

00:22

someone else will take charge and everything will be just

00:25

fine Like you know his mom always does his laundry

00:28

cleans room like that kind of guy That's how it's

00:30

always worked in the past So why not work now

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Well the day of the event rolls around and three

00:35

out of twenty people show up Hey that's What happens

00:38

when you forget to send out a schedule but and

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thinks he can make do though and ask whose car

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they're taking strike too Danno remember how you were supposed

00:47

to organize rides God looks like you should have done

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that Because no one here has a car Well then

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refuses to get discouraged He rounds up his ragtag group

00:56

and finds a bus to the soup kitchen Gets there

00:59

And strike three He's forgot to collaborate with the soup

01:02

kitchen staff They're not expecting him today and we only

01:05

have other things on their agenda They offer use of

01:07

their kitchen though And your group decides to cook for

01:10

whoever happens to be there Bring on the food Okay

01:13

Yeah Strike for is that a thing Well dan the

01:16

man didn't buy any food Sorry guys No soup for

01:19

you And this group head back Discouraged and disgruntled Remember

01:23

how everything always worked out in the past Yeah There's

01:26

A reason for that Danny boy It's called responsibility Mom

01:30

you shouldn't have done all his laundry and then cleared

01:32

his dinner plates All right Well when the next trip

01:34

to the soup kitchen rolls around dan has planned He's

01:37

also somehow kept his position as president Politics He checked

01:41

everyone schedules and sent out a few reminders that the

01:44

event was coming up How hard is it to click

01:46

Send on that email He made sure he knew who

01:49

had a car and would be willing to drive You

01:51

bought the food ahead of time He communicated with the

01:54

soup kitchen staff to make sure their clients knew about

01:56

The event And once there he kept everyone's spirits up

01:59

with come in as in charm this time around the

02:02

event's success dan organized everything well and provided cheerful motivation

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and clear direction to his fellow club members Nice looks

02:10

like dan's figured out responsibility Responsible people can be trusted

02:13

to get stuff done Now that dance proven himself his

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glove as faith in him and trust that he'll always

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be prepared to take care of business And that's a 00:02:21.638 --> [endTime] pretty neat feeling Wallaces need as soup for everyone

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