Farewell "Friend"

We've been saying goodbye to a lot of our friends at the office lately. One such gentleman worked in our mailroom where he kept a little paper clock to mark his comings and his goings. For the past couple months I passed this clock everyday, but never realized that he actually used it in this way--I assumed that the positions of the hands on the clock were random.

That is, until the day after his departure when one of us noticed the sad symbol you see on the right. In his exacting effort to silently notify us of his activities, he covered the hands of the clock with paper, leaving us a subtle message that he would never return. 

This was a guy who never announced his presence or demanded our notice, but who consistently served the office with joy and a Christian work ethic. Many of us never took the time to make him a friend, but in his final weeks we were left with the impression that he counted us as his intimates.

His final, telling pronouncement that he was here among us--but now is gone--has left me a little disappointed in my own lack of attention to him while we worked together. Goodbye, Lloyd.

Comments

[Luann]

Oh gosh- this makes me feel sad...

[paula]

Me too...and I didn't even really know him. But I guess nobody did... :(

[Darnell Lamb]

I loved the man!