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Another Person To Brag On
Feb. 4th, 2004 09:39 pmThis week has been a bit slow at work and I've spent some time talking with a 56-year-old coworker I'll call "Alex" for privacy's sake. I've always liked her because of her quick wit and great sense of humor. She used to work in our fiscal department and recently switched to our branch.
Over the last few months, I've learned how amazing her life has been. A tall woman at 6'0", she was the shortest of her Quaker Family. In the 1960's she was a roller derby queen, which she now blames for her bad knees, but I still would love to see a picture of her in her gear. Sadly, she says she doesn't have any to share.
Her first fiance died in Vietnam, which led to her huge disdain for the War. She met her now husband through a friend. She swears he was all hands on her first date, but cute enough to go on a second. The second date was in a two seater plane he was flying. He kept doing loops, she got sick and threw up on him.. in mid-air. He never complained.. she now had a keeper.
With her new love in tow, Alex decided to protest the war on her college campus and anywhere else. She said that she had more than one run-in with the police and got arrested at least once.
Working for Uncle Sam, she's one of the few people who had the brass to tell a supervisor to "Just eat shit and die" and get away with it. Alex recently went through stomach bypass to lose weight. So far she's dropped 120 lbs and she looks great. With only two years to go before retirement, as she continues to remind us, she keeps us all in stitches.
Over the last few months, I've learned how amazing her life has been. A tall woman at 6'0", she was the shortest of her Quaker Family. In the 1960's she was a roller derby queen, which she now blames for her bad knees, but I still would love to see a picture of her in her gear. Sadly, she says she doesn't have any to share.
Her first fiance died in Vietnam, which led to her huge disdain for the War. She met her now husband through a friend. She swears he was all hands on her first date, but cute enough to go on a second. The second date was in a two seater plane he was flying. He kept doing loops, she got sick and threw up on him.. in mid-air. He never complained.. she now had a keeper.
With her new love in tow, Alex decided to protest the war on her college campus and anywhere else. She said that she had more than one run-in with the police and got arrested at least once.
Working for Uncle Sam, she's one of the few people who had the brass to tell a supervisor to "Just eat shit and die" and get away with it. Alex recently went through stomach bypass to lose weight. So far she's dropped 120 lbs and she looks great. With only two years to go before retirement, as she continues to remind us, she keeps us all in stitches.
