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Fightin Texas Aggie Class of '86 and '89...Aggie Mom...HR exec

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[Jordan Elder @JordanElderTV]

Sources say the parking lot at McIntyre’s in San Antonio is completely full… and so is the entire establishment

Go Spurs 🏀

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@spurs @HEB GSG!

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@Sadie_NC Me….40 years Dec 27 this year

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@mrmikeMTL Yup….

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@FlyTPA San Antonio

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Thanksgiving Day Parade 1997: The Day Barney Died

[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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@tengland_150 Did we actually watch tape of UTSA?

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@LASPORTSFANATIC WHOOP!

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Kendall Turton celebrating her 60th birthday with her husband Jon and friends Melissa and Robert in Bora Bora #SundayTODAY

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Flooding on Broadway! This is video from a KENS 5 viewer at Broadway Street in front of Cappy’s Restaurant. Send us your pictures and video through the KENS 5 app. Follow updates here: https://t.co/bSKFEFM6Us

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The hwy 21/36 light in Caldwell is running 10 sec west to east. Someone needs to look at it quickly. Traffic is backed up a bunch. #Burlesoncounty # Caldwell

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@AggieBaseball Nope

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@Variety No Emergency! ? The show single handedly influenced many young girls and boys to become firefighters and paramedics. It was an important show in its time.

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@bathbodyworks I’ve tried to check out for an hour now and can’t. I’ve lost half my order because of this - disappointed

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@bathbodyworks Why can’t I check out?