Do you remember?
When was the first time that you were given a responsibility that you thought was just a little bit above you; just a frog’s hair out of your reach?
Has it happened more than just one time?
Was it at a new job or an old one with new duties?
When I walked in that early morning, she greeted me at the door. That was her job–to be a Greeter–and she always did it well. I always joked with her about how she was the sweetest person who ever told me where to go so nicely.
. . .but, but not that morning. . .that morning she was a bundle of nerves and not to be consoled all that easily. She, that day, was told because they had two call-off’s, she now had to be a waitress for the first time.
I wanted to volunteer to be her first customer but I wasn’t lucky enough. . .her section was already filled and she had to get to work.
Do you remember?
Do you remember the first time that you choked on what you bit off more than you could chew and didn’t think you could swallow or even spit it out?
Do you remember when you didn’t choke. . .in fact, that you really liked the taste and then couldn’t get enough of the same?
When was your Green Apron Moment?
We’ve all had those Green Apron moments before and most likely, if you have a pulse–you’ll have more to come; in fact, the best Green Apron moments just might be those you’ve yet to experience?
It was about a week later, I went back in very early morning and there was a Greeter who met me at the door who had a big smile on her face and quite a different look in her eye.
“What? No Green Apron today?”
“No,” she said smiling back. “They just need me to be a Greeter today.”
“How was it?”
“It was great. I never thought I could do it, but thinking back on it, I’m glad I didn’t have the choice or the time to even think about it. They just said, here’s the apron, go do it. . .oh yeah the tip money was awesome. People actually liked me.”
Isn’t that our biggest fear about our own Green Apron Moments. . .not so much that we may botch it up and fail miserably, but that, that maybe someone just may not like us?
Maybe the older we get the less opportunities for us to have our own Green Apron Moments–but they do exist, most especially where and when we least expect them.
THAT’S the Adventure of Living.
But if there’s one sure-fire guarantee in that living, it is that we most definitely are assured to be in the very presence of those who may be having their Green Apron Moments. . .
Forget about remembering your’s at that moment. . .
Make it your personal responsibility that they will never forget T H E I R S !
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