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‘Twas the Month of December
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<blockquote data-quote="Work right slow and safe" data-source="post: 648485" data-attributes="member: 16836"><p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">'Twas the month of December, when I, the cover driver was happy,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">To know that I will soon be making money;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">December will go by fast without a care,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">But my wife and children know that I will not soon be there;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">My children will be in there bed by nine,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">And they will ask if dad will be fine;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">But I will be out in the cold and soaking wet,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Hoping to make my deadlines met,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">When morning starts to appear,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">They hurry to see if dad is still here.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Out the door I run,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">And I wish them a good day and plenty of fun.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">They sit and have breakfast alone</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Knowing our Christmas celebration will be postponed.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">My customers are so full of glee,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">They wish me a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I yell ”You do the same,”</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">As my back is turned toward them.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I run to my truck thinking that’s only one stop,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">with more to do and no time for breaks;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">”Next stop faster and don’t go over!</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Or you will get a warning letter,”</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Trying to stay safe, </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">But its getting late,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">As night falls, I see families laughing for free,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">and I think of my family still waiting for me,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Its ten til nine, I’m starving,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">And my bones and back are aching</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Cause its getting cold</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">but I still have twenty to go.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">My phone will ring and its my children telling me they miss me</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">And wondering what time I will be home.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">My eyes will fill with tears,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Knowing the ones I love will not be full of cheer;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">To miss Christmas Eve,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">”What did we achieve?”</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The money is nice,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">But my family is my life!</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">As I drive back to the center,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I find management has all left to have a family dinner;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I fear Monday will come too soon,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">And we will get write ups and some friend-you’s;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">They tell you, “You should have done better,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Now get back to work cause our numbers are what matter.”</span></span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Back to the hub I go after Christmas, with much chatter,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I look back at what I missed and what really matters;</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I missed time with my wife and children on Christmas Eve,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">A hot meal, not one that has been leftover;</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The memory my children will have because I was not there,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Will forever put a scare on my heart,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Knowing </span></span><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">UPS</span></span><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> doesn’t care,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Leaves me in great despair;</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Well, I guess they can say I was Saint Nick,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">But who will really gives a ****.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">This is one more Christmas, I was not there.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Work right slow and safe, post: 648485, member: 16836"] [CENTER][CENTER][COLOR=#006600][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]'Twas the month of December, when I, the cover driver was happy, To know that I will soon be making money; December will go by fast without a care, But my wife and children know that I will not soon be there; My children will be in there bed by nine, And they will ask if dad will be fine; But I will be out in the cold and soaking wet, Hoping to make my deadlines met, When morning starts to appear, They hurry to see if dad is still here. Out the door I run, And I wish them a good day and plenty of fun. They sit and have breakfast alone Knowing our Christmas celebration will be postponed. My customers are so full of glee, They wish me a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, I yell ”You do the same,” As my back is turned toward them. I run to my truck thinking that’s only one stop, with more to do and no time for breaks; ”Next stop faster and don’t go over! Or you will get a warning letter,” Trying to stay safe, But its getting late, As night falls, I see families laughing for free, and I think of my family still waiting for me, Its ten til nine, I’m starving, And my bones and back are aching Cause its getting cold but I still have twenty to go. My phone will ring and its my children telling me they miss me[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER] [CENTER][COLOR=#006600][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]And wondering what time I will be home. My eyes will fill with tears, Knowing the ones I love will not be full of cheer; To miss Christmas Eve, ”What did we achieve?” The money is nice, But my family is my life! As I drive back to the center, I find management has all left to have a family dinner; I fear Monday will come too soon, And we will get write ups and some friend-you’s; They tell you, “You should have done better, Now get back to work cause our numbers are what matter.”[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER] [COLOR=#006600][FONT=Times New Roman]Back to the hub I go after Christmas, with much chatter, I look back at what I missed and what really matters; I missed time with my wife and children on Christmas Eve, A hot meal, not one that has been leftover; The memory my children will have because I was not there, Will forever put a scare on my heart, Knowing [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#006600][FONT=Times New Roman]UPS[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#006600][FONT=Times New Roman] doesn’t care, Leaves me in great despair; Well, I guess they can say I was Saint Nick, But who will really gives a ****. This is one more Christmas, I was not there. [/FONT][/COLOR][/CENTER][COLOR=#006600][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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