<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353712" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thoughts on an Old Man at Work</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Late one evening, I sat in my car - outside a fast food joint. <br>Outside, there was a silver-haired old man in a white button-down shirt and a black apron washing windows - and I couldn't help but stare.<br>What was an old man like him doing washing windows at a crumby fast food joint? <br>The man looked to be in his sixties, but his hard hands and wrinkled grimace added ten years. My guess was he wasn't there for a sense of purpose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mind began to wonder</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had the old man fallen upon hard times? Was he struggling to make ends meet? <br>Was the harsh look smeared across his face his way of letting me know that he'd rather be sitting in his backyard sipping whisky and smoking a cigar? <br>Horrible visions of shattered dreams come to mind.<br>For a moment I slip into his apron.<br>My back hurts from being hunched over all day - and my hands are sore from gripping the wiper. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A good life can only get so bad</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where do I go from here? <br>I snap out of my daze when my brother opens the car door. <br>I get to drive home and away from this place - and if I wanted too, I'd never have to come back <br>But the old man couldn't be so lucky</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Youth is the single most unappreciated gift</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=C.S.+Smith">C.S. Smith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353712" data-title="Thoughts on an Old Man at Work de C.S. Smith" data-description="Late one evening, I sat in my car - outside a fast food joint. Outside, there was a silver-haired old man in a white button-down shirt and a black apron washing windows - and I couldn't help but stare. What was an old man like him doing washing w..."></div> </div> </div>

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