FLIP FLOPS

The day before my daughter left for CT she had the morning off from work so she went to get a mani/pedi. She was going to call me when she was done because I was getting done with work at 1 and we were going to get together for lunch. Instead of callING she stopped by my office. I wasn't expecting her but as soon as I heard the flip flop of her flip flops coming down the hall I knew it was her. Some people herE do where flip flops to work so it could have been anyone but I just new instinctively it was her.
It so reminded me of the four years that she was in college. I work in a university right in the city where we lived and when it came time for her to apply to colleges she pleased us to say t hat she was going to attend the university here in town, it is a private university so after four years we saved ourselves over $100,000. Free tuition was a benefit for the children of employees. Her freshmen year was very hard. The program she was accepted in ended up being no her thing, so luckily she was able to change to another course of study not soon after her freshmen year started. But during the first weeks I would often hear her coming down the toward my office and I just wanted to run and hide, because I knew it could only be bad news about a class or a teacher. So needless to say hearing her coming would strike terror in my heart. I was almost as painful for me as it was for her. So what a pleasure it was the other day when I heard her coming, new it was her and was so elated. She sped through those four years effortlessly and is so happy in her field of work right now.
I did hear from her last night when she got back to her hotel room. She said her day went well, the store is a mess but she is going to get it into shape. She isn't going to let the way the person in her job before her did things sway her. She is going to do her job by the book. She knows the "Standards and Operating Procedures" by heart and she is going to work hard to get things up to standard. If they let her go because they don't like the way she does things BY THE BOOK, that's ok, she has job to go back too. She works by the book at that job and management is happy with that there. If they may say to themselves, hey this is what we need here, that's good too because maybe they will offer her the job.