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View from the office today. @DALLASBRADEN209

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"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

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@YouKnowBall_pin Sorry for your loss and I ordered 5 because unfortunately I know 5 people close to me that have passed from cancer who are Raider fans and would really appreciate these pins. #FukCancer

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@RaiderVerif1ed RaiderVerified is solid. Friends and myself have bought tickets more than once on RV. Really easy to use and customer service was top notch.

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@GenoSmith3 Great job today in NE! Me and my crew will be at the MNF home opener! Keep it Rolling! #RaiderNation

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@CrosbyMaxx HBD 98

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@Top100Rick I love my Ping 7 wood Max.

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@nut_history Lance Parrish, my first Rawlings Catchers Mitt

But the Rawlings RBG36 with the basket weave Dale Murphy sig was hot shit in the 80s when we were kids, then Griffey was the sig when he made it to the show.

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@RobbyBerger Napoleon Kaufman

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@allinautumnwind @Raiders Went to and worked at a lot games.

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@BBGreatMoments Eddie Murray

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@Mike_kim714 Is it difficult finding housing for The Open once you received the call you were in?

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@OfficialTourPro Dinner @LavaLavaBeach
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@nut_history It is in Sacramento but it was only going to be open for 3 months once the A’s starting playing their inaugural season.

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@TheMLBDigest Nick Bierbrodt

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@Mike_kim714 Thanks for the reply. Is the fitness trailer staffed with the same people each week on tour to help you week in and out? Or do pros have to provide their own training staff?