It’s been a long day at work, but I’m still here, just a little longer to go, then it’s time for home, it has been a long day.
But not a hard one! I have to admit, my days at work are long, but they’re enjoyable and after six years on my regular job, I still enjoy it as much as the day I first started!
Every day I’m out in the sunshine (it’s summer here at the moment) driving up and down the streets here in New Zealand just enjoying the things I do have. Enjoying the sun, scenery, enjoying life in general and helping people on the way.
Okay, not everyone thinks I’m being all that helpful when I turn them away at the Bus door because they’ve got a frozen coke in a flimsy plastic cup,
“I’m not going to drink it!” they say, which makes me think ‘then why did you buy it?’ but I can’t ask that.
All I can do is think of the last passenger who got annoyed at clothing ruined by a wet seat that stained her new dress! but hey, maybe I can stop the next one.
Sometimes, just being on that open road excites me, it fills me with wonder at what’s around the next bend. Who am I going to encounter next? Not famous people necessarily, but everyone so fascinating in their own way.
Imagine the old lady sat quietly on the bus, the one you had to help get on this morning. She’s 92 years young and emigrated to the country at the age of 89 ‘because everyone I knew in England is dead, my Daughter lives here, so I thought I’d come and be with her’.
You get talking and she tells you she flew Spitfires during the war! She was a delivery pilot, delivering the latest planes from the factory to the frontline squadrons at the most crucial time in history, and she’s sat there, just minding her own business, enjoying the ride.
That was an old lady I met four years ago, just one of the many trips when amazing people came along, I’ve not seen this lady since, but just think what I’d have missed if we hadn’t taken the time to just chat as we went along ‘on the road’
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