It’s 8:05 am and I’m ALREADY BACK at the cafeteria getting my second cup of coffee. Mind you, it’s a 1/4 mile round trip from where I sit so I justify the need as exercise.
In the cafeteria, Styrofoam cups are in one location, the coffee urns are in another, the lids are in a THIRD place and the sugar/cream/stirrers are in a FOURTH location. I SO DESPERATELY want to reorganize this place that my head spins.
Anyway, I’m fixing my coffee at Location Four and this guy comes up next to me to fix his. And he’s PERKY. “Good morning!!” he crows. He’s happy. Full of Life. PERKY.
I gave him my ‘I’ve been up since 5:00 AM and this is only my second cup of coffee’ look and asked him WHY? Why was he so happy? I wanted this man to share his joie de vivre secret.
Well, as it turns out, he’s happy TO BE ALIVE. Three years ago he was in TWO life-threatening car accidents. The first as a state highway trooper when a car t-boned him going 85 MPH. The 25-year old driver died at the scene and Officer Perky spent 3 weeks in the hospital, 3 month in therapy and still has metal rods in his arm and leg. SEVEN months later, a drunk woman plows into him. Back to the hospital, back to therapy, back to rehab, and then he left the force for a less dangerous job here at LM. He can finally move without a wheel chair, without a walker, without crutches. He can walk with a small limp and rods in his hip and arms.
Officer Perky's name is Bill. And he is happy to be alive.
No caffeine needed.
In the cafeteria, Styrofoam cups are in one location, the coffee urns are in another, the lids are in a THIRD place and the sugar/cream/stirrers are in a FOURTH location. I SO DESPERATELY want to reorganize this place that my head spins.
Anyway, I’m fixing my coffee at Location Four and this guy comes up next to me to fix his. And he’s PERKY. “Good morning!!” he crows. He’s happy. Full of Life. PERKY.
I gave him my ‘I’ve been up since 5:00 AM and this is only my second cup of coffee’ look and asked him WHY? Why was he so happy? I wanted this man to share his joie de vivre secret.
Well, as it turns out, he’s happy TO BE ALIVE. Three years ago he was in TWO life-threatening car accidents. The first as a state highway trooper when a car t-boned him going 85 MPH. The 25-year old driver died at the scene and Officer Perky spent 3 weeks in the hospital, 3 month in therapy and still has metal rods in his arm and leg. SEVEN months later, a drunk woman plows into him. Back to the hospital, back to therapy, back to rehab, and then he left the force for a less dangerous job here at LM. He can finally move without a wheel chair, without a walker, without crutches. He can walk with a small limp and rods in his hip and arms.
Officer Perky's name is Bill. And he is happy to be alive.
No caffeine needed.