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You’re welcome, Jo. :-)
Today is also the 60th Birthday of a long ago co-worker, and friend whom I have long lost touch with.
30 years ago, approaching her 30th Birthday, she was pretty bummed out about turning that “old” age.
I thought it would be nice to acknowledge her birthday, in a pretty much low-key way, so as not to appear to be teasing her, but to simply cheer her up and put a smile on her face.
I had surreptitiously started making plans with a few other co-workers, and started soliciting funds to either buy a nice cake, or one co-worker volunteered that she might consider baking one, and I told her if so, she’d get the money (or perhaps was going to be a portion, with the rest going to the Birthday Girl). I had also bought a HUGE Birthday Card, that would have needed extra postage if mailed(!) for everyone to sign.
Just a few days before her Birthday, I was called into the office at work at the end of the day, and informed I was being laid off due to a slowdown of business. Another Driver (which I also was) had been laid off 6 months earlier.
Naturally I’m stunned and upset about losing my job, but also PISSED because it pretty much screwed up my plans for the friend’s Birthday.
So, I gathered up the card, and the cash that had been raised, and walked it over to her house (she and Hubby were West Seattleites) along with a note as to what my original plan was, and apologizing for not being able to see it through, and left it at their front door.
She and I got in touch later, and she told me she had stormed into the Boss’ office after she found out about my lay-off, and reamed the Bosses out for laying off me, “…who works his butt off, while you’ve got guys in (another department) sitting on theirs!…”
I kinda wonder how she’s dealing with Double-30 today… :-)
Mike