I know you won't see this till tomorrow Garfield, so, Happy Birthday Garfield.
HOPE THIS ISN'T TOO LONG OF A STORY.
I just took a new position in the ministry that allows me to be off on my wifes b-day, 11/11. We had already had 18 years of marriage.
I had been at my new job for about eight months. After many years of 70-80 hour work weeks.
I told her that I would take the day off in celebration of her b-day and that it would be no problem with my new job.
She was elated!
Never before had I done such a great act of kindness for her on her b-day!
I took the day off. We did a few things together. You know, she was feeling great.
Never before had I taken a day off just for her b-day.
Just a few short weeks later, we went to be with my family for Thanksgiving.
My dad asked her, at the Thanksgiving table, "How do you like your hubbys new job?"
He too, along with my brother, had 11/11 off every year, for the last 10 years, mind you.
She said, "He is home everyday to take everyone to the pool, beach and sometimes out to eat." Things we were never able to do before. She went out of her way to tell my father, "I had even taken off for her b-day," and how special that was to her.
O boy, my brother looked up in shock.
He asked her, "Hey, When is your b-day?" after my family gushed at my thoughtfulness for taking off for her b-day, she answered joyfully, "Nov. 11th!"
"O really?" he quipped, "That is a holiday every year for your husband at his new job."
You could've heard a mouse fart in the room of about 20 people.
Needless to say, I was out of gas, bigtime.
I went from HERO to zero.
O well, I am taking tomorrow off again, for the 8th straight year, in memory of her b-day.
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Happy Birthday to Garfield11/11, funny story
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