What Breaks Operation R.A.K

In an effort to bring the student body closer together and to simply lead by example, Josh, Isaac and myself have begun Operation Random Acts of Kindness (aka R.A.K.). For those of you who weren't tripped up by all the acronyming (new word) that just went on and are still reading we basically seek to make the lives of our fellow students easier. Our first operation took place in no other place than the dining hall. We had the idea that after lunch and tea (dinner) we would take everyone's dishes and place them on the cart to be cleaned. So as students finished we would grab all the cutlery, plates, and bowls from their hands and do them a favor of emptying the excess food from the plates into the rubbish bin and placing all the dishes on the cart. We of course had to make it fun so the entire time we are yelling at each other to make sure that we attend to every student before they get to the rubbish bin. The task becomes much more difficult to accomplish when more students finish eating, but at the same time so much more fun because the yelling and frantic cleaning of plates and placing on carts gets more intense. Well, everything came to a crashing halt, literally, a couple of nights ago when a casserole dish fell off the cleaning cart onto the tile floor below. The dish broke into so many pieces, as did Operation R.A.K. But what I found so interesting was how determined some people were to take their own dishes and not allow us to do it for them. We hear so often that holding a door open for a lady or complimenting someone on their dress goes a long way, but when you want to take someone's plate from a meal you are simply depriving them of their constitutional rights. Needless to say, Operation R.A.K. will be M.I.A. until we can better orchestrate a sure fire plan.