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Bostonian living in sunny CA

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@BoozeyBeauty Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down 🤣

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@itsme_urstruly This is my all time favorite! 🤣🤣

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@CrazyVibes_1 @what_the_kale_ I love this. My mom does the same thing. She always has a list and what she wants is time ❤️. I went part time this year to spend more time with her. She’s 88

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@Biblicalman Love this.

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@elonmusknews30 A.

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@BoozeyBeauty Those are big words for him 😂

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"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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@BKRBusinessMin Wow. Not a true reader or listener of your content

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This is motivating!

[Joey Yochheim @joeyyochheim]

Rich people don't flex with sports cars anymore.

They flex with:

Low body fat %
Longevity
Energy levels

Health is the new wealth.

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@qualityatbats Love this 💕

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@BKRBusinessMin Congrats! That’s big.

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@backseatjuror Love this article

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@BKRBusinessMin HB CA

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@BKRBusinessMin Why ASCs need to live by KPI metrics, circulate to ownership and management team, educate on them and then compensate staff when KPIs are met or exceeded. It’s a game changer and works every time.

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@LawyerYouKnow The best of the best, together!

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@qualityatbats Prayers 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

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@BKRBusinessMin Thought provoking.

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@anniejoyce1923 @FKR102445 That’s what kills me about this case, why doesn’t he know how wrong that sounds??

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@LynMari24290294 The hair 😂😂😂

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@KevinKe65264114 @lala3049 Such a good point!!!