Something I've always remembered from my childhood is the phrase 'there's always someone worse off than yourself'. This is certainly true of the story I am about to share with you all now; and for the purposes of this it has been necessary for me to leave out all personal information, such as names or places, etc.
Part of my job is to contact customers who have not informed us of a recent house move. We find many cases of people who just haven't got round to it, others for altogether different reasons; in the case of a young man whom I spoke to this morning, the reasons couldn't have seemed much worse if he was making it up (which of course he could have been but I doubt it).
After id made initial contact with the customer and gone through the usual 'security' checks he began to tell me what has happened to him since April 2011; not only had be been made redundant from his job, he was then involved in a car accident, in which he broke his jaw in two places, broke his right leg, and when you thought things couldn't be any bleaker, he also incurred a detached retina.
As if that wasn't bad enough, he had more to come. He continued to tell me that just four months ago some awful human being, if they can be called that...human being not awful (that's a given), decided it would be a good idea to set fire to the poor young man's house; you could say this added insult to injury. The most unfair thing about all of this has meant not only does he have no money coming in he also now has no home to go to at night. I'll be honest, I felt ever so guilty asking his reasons for not informing us of his change of address after he'd told me all this. The other sad thing about his situation is that his long term partner left him whilst all this was going on. Sadder still is the fact that, because he has no home and no partner to go home to he finds himself living and sleeping in a van; not even his parents are able to help or even accommodate him for the time being. So, next time you think you don't have enough of something material spare a thought for the homeless of this world.
Onto a lighter note, i'd like to follow up yesterday's funny name item with this; to be fair its not exactly funny but it made me smile; todays name, Mr T Booker. It made me wonder if he owned more than one MG and liked Green onions! (do you see what I did there?)
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