And That's What It's All About
RIGHT NOW!
Whats On: Bad News Bears...its a long story!
Current Mood..
It was 4:30 in the afternoon on Friday and we were scrambling to get the last of our work done. All week, we had worked very hard and were getting out the work for braces we made for people, some for thousands of dollars. Paperwork was everywhere and priorities changed by the minute.
Just when we were in mid rush an old lady came in the office with her daughter, with an infection on the top of her foot and she needed a special shoe. It would have been easy to tell them to make an appointment and come back next week, but they had been too a variety of places willing to charge large sums of money, or not know what they were doing. A voice echoed inside my head of a minister I once heard who said, ‘If you want to find out what people are made of, show up at their office at 5 pm on Friday afternoon.”
I took her in back and found a special shoe that fit her, but then I knew I had to cut it so her infection could heal.
Then so the straps of the shoes didn’t bother her infection I had to remove all of them and re-sew them in different places to keep the shoe on her foot. As soon as I put it on her foot, the smile on her face said it all. Her daughter was thrilled and they went home happy and grateful. The price we collected for this item...$17
After a week of rushing around getting devices for people worth a lot of money it was a less than $20 item that meant the most to its recipient.
We watched them as they walked out the door and the clock struck 5 pm. I looked at the girls in the office and said, “That’s why we do what we do!"
Whats On: Bad News Bears...its a long story!
Current Mood..
It was 4:30 in the afternoon on Friday and we were scrambling to get the last of our work done. All week, we had worked very hard and were getting out the work for braces we made for people, some for thousands of dollars. Paperwork was everywhere and priorities changed by the minute.
Just when we were in mid rush an old lady came in the office with her daughter, with an infection on the top of her foot and she needed a special shoe. It would have been easy to tell them to make an appointment and come back next week, but they had been too a variety of places willing to charge large sums of money, or not know what they were doing. A voice echoed inside my head of a minister I once heard who said, ‘If you want to find out what people are made of, show up at their office at 5 pm on Friday afternoon.”
I took her in back and found a special shoe that fit her, but then I knew I had to cut it so her infection could heal.
Then so the straps of the shoes didn’t bother her infection I had to remove all of them and re-sew them in different places to keep the shoe on her foot. As soon as I put it on her foot, the smile on her face said it all. Her daughter was thrilled and they went home happy and grateful. The price we collected for this item...$17
After a week of rushing around getting devices for people worth a lot of money it was a less than $20 item that meant the most to its recipient.
We watched them as they walked out the door and the clock struck 5 pm. I looked at the girls in the office and said, “That’s why we do what we do!"
posted by CuzzinDave at 12:44 AM
1 Comments:
Great story there, Dave!
By the way, I'm thoroughly enjoying the "what's on now" and "current mood" parts of your postings.
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