Yesterday at work was funny, going thru my calls trying to follow the "script" we are supposed to read that continues to escape me but I was managing to pull off (so I could rise above my ranking of almost dead last, which is not like me, but who I am I suppose today). Then I get a call. I look at the d.o.b. and she was born in 1923. Her membership had expired and her insurance lapsed. She was trying to sell the Cadillac the she hadn't driven, she realized, in about a year but needed to get it legal to sell it. I just sat and listened as she talked about people talking about trying to buy it from her. To get her membership back in place and get insurance on it would have probably cost a couple hundred dollars. Then she mentioned driving it to someone who wanted to buy it. I finally stopped her. I asked how many miles it had on it and got on my PC and blue booked it for her. I asked her if anyone had offered her anywhere near $3500. She almost choked. I said "this is just a personal note, first tell me you won't be driving this to anyone alone, then go to DMV get a temporary tag for probably $1 a day, they should have 3 day trip permits, then tell everyone you are asking $4500 and let them talk you down to $3500, make them come get it and make someone give you a ride to get the temporary tag". She almost started to cry. She doesn't have internet and needed all of my information to write a letter about me. It took another five minutes to get all of that information together. Total call time probably over 20 minutes. No one chimed in to ask what I was doing or why it was taking so long. I hope someday that letter reaches AAA and I am blessed with reading it. The next 3-4 calls all told me how nice I was and thanked me for being helpful. That is me and who I will always be. I'm not even sure why I had to share that. As I sit in tears today for so many reasons good and bad. Grateful for what I have, wishing I had accomplished more and knowing that one little old lady somewhere in CA won't be taken advantage of and wishing I could just go help her. <3
Prior to that was the FB post to my best friends dad.
My deep need to save the world, my hope that life WILL someday be fair, and the want to keep my Facebook friends from removing me have finally pushed me here.....to try to turn it all into something useful or understandable, or that will make a difference for someone.
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