A Chair For Our Friend Walt
We live in a small town and the staff at our office frequent a small coffee shop on a regular basis for our morning coffee break. We get to meet all sorts of people who are regulars. One older couple who came in regularly on Thursdays and we would greet them and exchange a few words. They had travelled from an adjacent community to do their grocery shopping (they liked our smaller town because there was less traffic). They would hold hands and smile as they came in each Thursday morning. One Thursday we saw that the husband came in alone. He looked tired and stressed out. It turned out that his wife had taken ill and was in the hospital. I think he continued to come in for the next few Thursdays as a diversion from the stress of his wife's illness. We didn't see him for some time and then ... Read Full Story >>
- Posted by sllynch
- Sep 18, 2007
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