BRENDA THE CHECKOUT GIRL
A Story for a Sunday
Thanks to reader Sherm for passing this one along. It’s pretty sweet. Enjoy the game everyone.
BRENDA THE CHECKOUT GIRLIn a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy, was busily working
when a new voice came over the loud speaker asking for a carry out at
register 4. Kurtis was almost finished, and wanted to get some fresh air, and
decided to answer the call. As he approached the checkout stand a distant smile
caught his eye, the new checkout girl was beautiful. She was an older woman
(maybe 26, and he was only 22) and he fell in love.
Later that day, after his shift was over, he waited by the
punch clock to find out her name. She came into the break room,
smiled softly at him, took her card and punched out, then left.
He looked at her card, BRENDA.
He walked out only to see her start walking up the road.
Next day, he waited outside as she left the supermarket,
and offered her a ride home. He looked harmless enough, and
she accepted. When he dropped her off, he asked if maybe he
could see her again, outside of work. She simply said it wasn’t possible.
He pressed and she explained she had two children and she
couldn’t afford a babysitter, so he offered to pay for the babysitter.
Reluctantly she accepted his offer for a date for the following Saturday.
That Saturday night he arrived at her door only to have her tell him that
she was unable to go with him.
The babysitter had called and canceled. To which Kurtis simply
said, “Well, let’s take the kids with us.”
She tried to explain that taking the children was not an
option, but again not taking no for an answer, he pressed.
Finally Brenda, brought him inside to meet
her children. She had an older daughter who was just as
cute as a bug, Kurtis thought, then Brenda brought out her son,
in a wheelchair. He was born a paraplegic with Down Syndrome.
Kurtis asked Brenda, “I still don’t understand why the kids can’t
come with us?” Brenda was amazed. Most men would run
away from a woman with two kids, especially if one had disabilities just
like her first husband and father of her children had done. Kurtis was not
ordinary he had a different mindset.
That evening Kurtis and Brenda loaded up the kids, went to
dinner and the movies. When her son needed anything Kurtis would take care
of him. When he needed to use the restroom, he picked him up out of his
wheelchair, took him and brought him back. The kids loved Kurtis.
At the end of the evening, Brenda knew this was the man she was going to
marry and spend the rest of her life with.
A year later, they were married and Kurtis adopted both of
her children. Since then they have added two more kids.
So what happened to Kurtis the stock boy and Brenda the
checkout girl?
Well,
Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Warner now live in Arizona , where he is
currently employed as the quarterback of the National Football
League Arizona Cardinals and has his
Cardinals in the hunt for a possible appearance in the
Super Bowl. Is this a surprise ending or could you have guessed
that he was not an ordinary person.
It should be noted that he also quarterbacked the Rams in
Super Bowl XXXVI.
