The Man Of Stories

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

I had older black man as a trainee for four days straight. The guy was kind of a jerk, but I put up with them for four days, because I made a little money off him.  But it was very talkative and it didn't make the time go by quick.

I told him I had written a book about hospice care and I talked to a lot of stories from different people just about listening. He kind of proudly boasted that he didn't have any stories. I told him everybody is full of stories, we just have to listen for them.

As he was talking that morning I told him a story I picked up just as he was talking. That morning I got up to four stories. Every time he told me something about him, I would say there's a story! In the afternoon we're up to eight stories. Every time I said that there was a story he got kind of annoyed and angry.

I had made storage just in one day. I could have went in detail and that's some more questions about each subject, but I decide not to. I just want to make my point that everybody has stories to tell. So at the end of the day I called him the "man of stories!" He really didn't like that too much!

I never could really understand why he didn't like me finding stories in his life. Most people would have liked that it, and enjoyed it. But this guy didn't like it at all. Maybe it was a fact that I was proving him wrong on something. More likely that was the case!


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