THE CHRISTMAS STORY
Every year my wife and I love to give the gift of a Christmas poinsettia to the people who treat us well all year long, such as the mailman, our favorite waitresses, bankers, barbers, etc. But last year the gift was very difficult to give to the newspaper carrier who delivers the paper every morning around 5:45am … or so I thought.
It was a snowy Sunday morning and I was up and at work by 4am doing office work and listening to my favorite radio station that plays Christmas music 24 hours a day. The coffee was on and time was flying by fairly fast. The next thing I knew it was 5:15am so I thought that I would spend the next 15 minutes or so just waiting on the newspaper carrier. So I got a thermos of coffee, pulled up a chair and turned up the Christmas music and sat down by the front door with a coupon for a free poinsettia to give to the delivery person as she dropped off the paper.
Tick, tock, tick, tock. The time kept ticking on and it was soon 5:30. Then 5:45. It had been a half hour by now but I was committed so I figured that it wouldn’t be much longer now. The scene was a beautiful Christmas setting with all of the decorative lights on the window ledges and the artificial trees, around 10 of them. The lights on the trees outside, and around the sign with the snow falling, and the Christmas music playing, was very relaxing. 6am. Then 6:30, my wife came down to see how I was progressing. She smiled when she saw my set-up. The chair, the coffee, the end table for my cup and thermos, and, of course, the Christmas music.
She offered me some toast and we discussed when we thought the paper might be coming. She said that she thought it might be later on Sunday as opposed to the rest of the week. We stepped outside and as we looked at the decorations, we also looked down the street for the car that brings the paper. It is now 7am and she asks me how much longer I was going to wait. Still, I have devoted a lot of time in waiting and it would be a shame to miss her now, so I kept on waiting. By now my wife has pulled up a chair and sat down beside me and we waited together.
Now it was 7:15 and I was thinking that it would have been nice to have had something to do while I was waiting all of this time but oh well, she would get here soon. Now 7:20, then 7:25 and then I saw them … the headlights from the car that brings the paper. Quickly I jumped up and ran outside to catch her as she normally drives through the parking lot tossing out the paper without even slowing down. Got her just in time. I handed her the coupon and we said “Merry Christmas” to each other and off she goes. It was worth the wait.
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