I watched while my football team was getting beat up on the football field that late fall October day. We were getting outplayed by a great football team. Their offense was crisp; the defense crushed us all day. This was not a pretty game to watch or play in. When you play on the college level, your team mates are to keep their negative thoughts to themselves unless it benefits the team. I heard starters saying things that any coach would have benched them for. One of my offensive linemen was c...
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I was unloading a UPS trailer during a blizzard in Wisconsin, it was cold, and I did not like the trailer rattling in the wind. Some snow was blowing through the cracks of the trailer that was backed on the dock. The temperatures outside were minus 12, and the wind gusts were over 50 mph. This blizzard started shortly after we reported for work. Drivers started calling in to work at 4:30 AM wondering if they should show up with the weather conditions the way they were. I listened to the supervi...
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The phone rang at 3:47 PM. On the other end was a woman sobbing. She told me she was going to kill herself. She wanted to die. She had lost everything she owned; she lost her husband to another woman, she was losing her house to the IRS, she was losing her health, and she had no job. As I listened to her cry for help, I couldn't but help feel some of this woman's pain. She was in trouble and felt she had nothing to live for. The sad thing, she was only 47 years old, and she was at the end of her...
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