Participating in orientation for our eldest daughters college enrolment. Information overload.
Here is a tip: Don’t offer the participants food and drink and then take them into a room where that food and drink isn’t allowed. Also, if you have participants using assistive technology to get around, give them time to get from point A to point B.
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In order to understand this post, you should read part 1 first.
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I was captivated by the lady at my side. The one I was asked to take to the party. Absolutely captivated.
My job was a seven day a week gig delivering newspapers. roughly 2,000 papers a night. Double that on Sundays. So I had to escort her back to her friends and pick up my daughter.
Later that evening, when I showed up to deliver papers to the lady that I had wanted to date forever, I asked for a phone number.
Give you a hint here. It wasn’t for the lady I had wanted to date forever. It was for my date to the Christmas party.
I was so afraid to call her. So I asked a friend to make the first call for me. Yep you guessed it. I asked the lady I was delivering papers to if she would make the first call. Sadly, I don’t remember more than her first name.
She made the call and the rest is history.
My date for the Christmas party became my intended. We were engaged three weeks later. Got married that summer. Had our fist child 18 months later.
Why is this important?
Besides giving insight into my life this is meant to also introduce the importance of family.
After the birth of our daughter, my second, our first, I was laid off from my job in construction. So I started taking courses at the community college in our town.
At one point in my second year, my bride asked me a very important question about my priorities.
“What is the most important thing in your life?” she asked.
Want to read more? You can find part 3 here.
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Thinking of my family at this late hour. It is 1am here. 2am back home. I am on vacation and can’t sleep. All but one family member is at home in Casa de Familia.
I was working a night job delivering newspapers. One night I happened to deliver to a business that had an old friend working. I had worked with this person in a previous job when I was still in high school. I wanted to date her more than I wanted anything in this life. I wanted to show her that men are not all assholes like her ex-husband and the other riffraff that she went out with. One night, she invited me to a Christmas party at a hotel with some friends.
It so happens that I had my daughter that weekend. What better way to woo a woman than to introduce a small child. So I showed up at the pool party with my daughter. Spent some time frolicking in the pool, sat in the hot tub. The woman I had designs on asked me for a favor. Actually, her girlfriends asked me for a favor. Seems like one of them had an employee Christmas party to attend that evening. Would I be willing to take her to the party?
The offer included free babysitting services.
Being the gentleman that I considered myself to be, I agreed. Of course, I was thinking that this would show my intended that I was a good guy that she could trust. I went home to change.
Later at the party, I discovered many people that I knew. Mostly family. But I discovered one very important thing.
Want to read more? Part 2 is here.
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