Re: Re: a real tear jerker

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WTG MIKE!!

bnxlatinany BnxlatinaNY@...> wrote: Great story Mike. I loved it.

Keep up the good work

Liz

>

> Ok guys don't cry or at least we're not supposed to. But seriously

> this is about as close to a feeling of just basic everyday joy

> sneaking up on me that I think I could share.

>

> I was thinking of leaving work around 4pm. My kids weren't in

school

> so I didn't have to pick them up and was staying late on a Friday

> just doing nothing really. I was chatting up my fellow cube

> prisoners. A guy I've worked with for most of the eight years I've

> been there was in his cube, I commented on his leather coat, then

> another guy popped up and said he just got one and knew we both

had

> them so we could all hang out together. Blah blah blah we kept

> talking and it was all fun.

>

> I picked up the first guy's coat and commented that it was pretty

> nice and hefty. He started talking about how it was a great coat

with

> a great name and how he'd bought it one of the local long time

> department stores years ago (it's out of business now). I asked

what

> size it was (I have no idea why). He said, " 44 " . Well I'm wearing

my

> father's old 46 coat (because he's to big for it now haha) and I

> announce, " Hey I'll bet this would fit me " The guy had started to

put

> the coat on just as a habit and put his hands in the pockets and

> says, " Oh I doubt that, come on " , starts to take it off and

politely

> hands it to me. The other guy is in the cube now showing us his

new

> jacket.

>

> I take the 44 coat. Put it on, no problem. Zip it up, NO PROBLEM

and

> say, " Hey this is pretty nice, I like it. " The other guy's jaw is

on

> the floor. I'm putting my hands in the pockets, checking the

length

> on the sleeves, sort of noticing that the gathering on the waist

> while higher up than my coat's longer length, is still working and

> yet is kind of LOOSE in a way, maybe his coat is just a little

used

> there I say. He starts to get a little concerned and says, " Ok

take

> it off, give me my coat back. " I say, " hmm there seems to be

things

> in the chest pockets here, what do you have going on here buddy? "

He

> demands, " Right, take it off now, give me my coat back, it's not

> yours! " While he has it now I might just accidentally wear it some

> day again. After all both our coats are brown and fit me fine. You

> can see the confusion right? At the least I'm going to have to

pass

> by his cube on my way out Monday and say, " Wow that sure IS a nice

> coat man, have a good afternoon " just to make him nervous. HAHA!

>

> This guy and many of my long time co-workers, like me, probably

still

> sometimes think of me as 5-6X. It is great having my and their

> world's rocked. It made my week, probably my whole damned month.

>

> Just thought I'd share a strange positive. This sort of thing

means

> much more to me than even my precious numbers, information and

> statistics of workout times and weight loss amounts.

>

> Mike in GR

>

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