Friends can be made anywhere

Erik Gray's Journals

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Written by Erik January 2017

Lowe's Summer job 2016

Funny story… so during “down time” when it was slow up front, our bosses wanted us to blow up red, white, and blue balloons to put on a pipe to decorate for the upcoming holiday. 

This specific time I think it was us getting ready for the 4^th of July. 

We were blowing up balloons and had an extra one or two. 

I had my utility knife with me and was talking with Annalyn, and I said something to the sort of, “Ya know, sometimes I just get in a stabby-stabby mood with balloons. And this extra one, I’m gonna pop it.” So I stuck the utility knife into the very large balloon, and it popped. But it popped SO LOUD- I have never heard a balloon pop that loud in my entire life. 

It echoed throughout the ENTIRE store and kind of sounded like a gunshot. The entire front end of the store, including the 5 or so employees that were all up there, turned and looked at me with a what the heck expression on their face. 

IT WAS SO FUNNY! Haha. 

My favorite person, her name is Annalyn. She is such a sweetheart! She and I talked a lot. She was going through a divorce around the time and it was good to hear her vent and she is such a sweetheart. One of the kindest people I have ever met. 

I think working at Lowe’s really helped show me that you can be friends with anyone- no matter how old and no matter what circumstance in life we are in. 

People are people and friends can be made anywhere. J

I also was very impressed… Lowe’s is really good to their employees. They treat them well there.