This article is not meant to generate large amounts of views, it is just about a personally uplifting moment which I had. The story starts when my summer job ended and I decided to be a waiter etc. Yesterday as I was waiting on people in my small hometown, one man and his wife come in. I greet them and he asks me, Son, I have a question for you. What is the lightest thing you can carry and costs the most? Well I was perplexed by this and was trying to decide wether he meant the most expensive yet light meal, or if he was truely joking and meant something like a peanut butter packet for 25cents (being the lightest thing we sold it would be the most expensive thing that is the lightest.) So I wonderd about this and didn’t return to his table until I was sure I had a suitable answer. I discussed it with my fellow employees and we came to a conclusion, he was NUTS!

   Now, being the kind of person I am I returned to his table and asked them if they were ready, hoping to no avail he wouldn’t ask for an answer, he didn’t. Until I was finished taking their order, then he asked me for an answer and catching me off guard I just looked at him. He smiled, laughed and said, an education. He wasn’t loony afterall just a joker, in the course of the next 45 minutes everytime I went to his table to check on them or deliver something he would ask me another riddle. By the time they finished eating my head hurt so badly and I had still not answered a single question correctly. I gave them their bill, they said thanks and were off.

   I didn’t think much of it other then I really hope they do not return. They were a bit odd. So today I went for my daily run a few hours late, having slept in on my day off. I make a habit of stopping and saying hello to people wether I know them or not, it makes them smile and never goes badly, seems a good thing to do! About 20 minutes in I meet an older man, I stopped and talked to him he lead into conversation about the beautiful flowers he was looking at and asked if I knew how to move them. (Little did he know I dig some up every year and put them in out yard!) Perhaps tomorrow I will take some pictures of them for you! So we talked for awhile about this and that and we got on the topic of how he had served in Britain as a ground crew member in the air force. I being a patriotic person and having a keen interest in such things had seen many documentaries and read many things about his squadron and what they had done.

   My experience today has changed me to appreciate everyone I meet in my daily life. He made my day and perhaps I made his by being able to talk in a knowledgeable manner about something that meant a lot to both of us. Never underestimate the people you meet, perhaps they are different but this man served and could have died for our freedom and I originally thought he was a loonie! I apologized and hope to meet him at my restaurant or on my daily run!