"He took up a lot of space. Moving around us. Weaving in and out of the aisles. Some ladies were annoyed. An old man behind us snickered and under his breath said, ‘hurry up.’"
“He’s a superhero. You know that," I whispered. She looked at me with tears in her big brown eyes, and do you know what she said to me?... Oof my heart just broke.
"She talked to him like none of us were in the room and they were on their anniversary date dinner (next month). She told him all the things she was going to miss without him there and thanked him for being the best husband and father. Although he couldn’t respond, you could see in his eyes he knew her voice."
Whether it's their lack of technological knowledge, or just their virtual-texting personality, if your mom has a smartphone, you've probably received a good knee slapper or two.
You see your mail carrier, they're the front-line. However, the mass amount of employees behind the scenes outnumber the carriers. Clerks, mailhandlers, machine operators, truck drivers, custodians, maintenance personnel and the list goes on and it takes every one of us to pull it off. We operate 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year.
"I was the last person he saw in the ER. He told me he trusted us to get him to the other side. He will be my silent warrior and guide until the day I hang up my stethoscope."
