As I've mentioned before in these posts I work in retail. One of the people that work with me as the door greeter is an older gentleman named Mr. Fred. Now this isn't just some door greeter, when you walk into our store Mr. Fred really greets you. Customers love to come in our store just to be greeted by Mr. Fred. Every kid that comes in gets a high five from him.
Mr. Fred is a huge LSU fan. And when I say huge, I mean huge. He can tell you what happened at a LSU game from twenty three years ago. He counts down the days between LSU football seasons.
About two months ago Mr. Fred had a heart attack/stroke while mowing his lawn. He went into a coma. He never woke up.
We put one of those huge greeting cards on a table at the front of the store to be signed by any customers that wanted to. We filled it completely, back and front. We put another one out and it was filled too. Not a day goes by that customers are asking about him.
Tonight I found out that he died a few days ago.
2 comments:
I'm sorry to hear about the death of your co-worker. He sounded like a really great guy to know.
He sounds like he was a very happy guy, and that he tried to spread that happiness around. You can never know enough people like that.
I'm so sorry to hear of this. You are very lucky to have known someone like him, few people get that opportunity.
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