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The integrity test

Frank Cotolo
January 20, 2022

Do you have integrity? If so, is it the right amount? If you said yes to both of those questions, let us check the facts about integrity; maybe you have been wrong all along about having it and enough of it.

Having integrity and enough of it means you have humility. If you think you have humility and brag about it then you do not have humility. If you show off your talent for swallowing balloons or walking on hot coals, you do not have humility.

No humility? No integrity.

Are you filled with goodness? Do you become happy when you contribute good stuff to other people? If you cannot sacrifice your own joy so that someone else's life can be better, then you lack goodness.

No goodness? No integrity.

Are you honest enough to tell someone who feels fat that they are fat? Can you admit to not having changed your underwear if someone says, "Do you have any clothing beneath your pants (or dress)?" If you cannot, you are not honest.

No honesty? No integrity.

Do you call people names that are not their names? Like if someone has a cleft lip, would you call him or her Clefty Lip? Would you call someone a name like Bootlicker or Doody Head or Smelly or Tubby or Chubby or Chubby Tubby? Would you ask someone with a big head if he or she can fit their groceries in their hat? Did you ever call someone a bastard, knowing very well he or she had parents? Did you ever call that person’s parents Hickey Dickey Doo Bottoms? If you are a name-caller, you are argumentative.

Argumentitive? No integrity.

There is no reason to go on. If you were honest answering the questions (remember the question about honesty?) then you do not have integrity and you have work to do, especially since there are other qualities you need to prove you have integrity and even if you have those qualities you fail if you became annoyed reading the questions and called me a Crap Head or Bingle Bran or Needle Nose or Mr. B.O. or Big Ears or three word names like Stinking Dope Loser or Idiot No Brain or Student Of Ignorance...

Fix yourself. You can do it, you Dumb And Dirty Nomad.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.