Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen & Maida Rogerson & Martin Rutte & Tim Clauss

Author:Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen & Maida Rogerson & Martin Rutte & Tim Clauss [Canfield, Jack & Hansen, Mark Victor & Rogerson, Maida & Rutte, Martin & Clauss, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780585102559
Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC
Published: 2007-12-27T18:30:00+00:00

Last Christmas was a very difficult time for me. My family and all of my close friends were back home in Florida, and I was all alone in a rather cold California. I was working too many hours and became very sick.

I was working a double shift at the Southwest Airlines ticket counter, it was about 9:00 P.M. on Christmas Eve, and I was feeling really miserable inside. There were a few of us working and very few customers waiting to be helped. When it was time for me to call the next person to the counter, I looked out to see the sweetest-looking old man standing with a cane. He walked very slowly over to the counter and in the faintest voice told me that he had to go to New Orleans. I tried to explain to him that there were no more flights that night and that he would have to go in the morning. He looked so confused and very worried. I tried to