As I told you, about having to take luncheon meat sandwiches everyday for school lunch. Well this was before I started working in the lunchroom to get free lunches. I remember it was right before Christmas vacation, because I remember looking at other people's lunches and seeing Christmas cookies. I remember there was fried chicken, string beans, potato salad and dessert was a Christmas cookie. I opened my lunch bag once more to see one sandwich with luncheon meat, no mayonnaise, no mustard just two slices of bread and one piece of luncheon meat. Well as usual I took it all in stride. I lifted it to my mouth to take my first bite when a hand grabbed my sandwich from my hands and walked over to the trash and tossed it in. It was my teacher, there I sit with no lunch and an empty stomach. I wanted to cry but held back the tears, because I did not want anyone seeing me with tears in my eyes. Especially over a luncheon meat sandwich, which I had already come to hate anyway. I sat there looking at the tabletop for what seemed like an eternity, embarrassed. I thought I had did something wrong, but I could not figure out for the life of me what it was. It seems like even today I can still tell you what that tabletop looked like, LOL. I felt a hand on my shoulder. And caught a glimpse of a lunch tray being set in front of me. Not only was it fried chicken, but it was a teacher's tray. It that two pieces of chicken instead of one like the student trays. And very large amounts of potato salad and string beans. And there was two Christmas cookies instead of the one that the rest of the students Had. That day, was the day that I learned that I could work in the lunchroom and received lunches. The thought of never having to eat another luncheon meat sandwich made me so happy. My teacher talked to the lunchroom supervisor, and arranged for me to work in the lunchroom at my recess. Which was all right with me, because to tell you the truth, I did not have that many friends anywhere to spend recess with. I can almost feel the hot soapy water that the dishes were washed in, before they went into the dishwasher. I remember there was a pump, pumping out the food particles that were in the water into a filter. I can remember the lunchroom staff, and how all of them treated me so kindly. I wish I could say thank you to them, but I'm sure they have long department this life on earth. But I can thank God for them. Nice people, doing nice things. As I said before, you never know the hearts you touch, by the little things you do. Some little thing that you do, may be so big to the person that you do it for. Remember that as you go through each day. Each smile that you put on the face, brightens the world.
Until then God bless and God save.