Storytime - Kurtis the Stock Boy

KURTIS THE STOCK BOY AND BRENDA THE CHECKOUT GIRL

In a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy, was busily working when a
new voice came over the loud speaker asking for a carry out at register
4. Kurtis was almost finished, and wanted to get some fresh air, and
decided to answer the call. As he approached the check-out stand a
distant smile caught his eye, the new check-out girl was beautiful. She
was an older woman (maybe 26, and he was only 22) and he fell in love.

Later that day, after his shift was over, he waited by the punch
clock to find out her name. She came into the break room, smiled
softly at him, took her card and punched out, then left. He looked at
her card, BRENDA. He walked out only to see her start walking up the
road. Next day, he waited outside as she left the supermarket, and
offered her a ride home. He looked harmless enough, and she accepted.
When he dropped her off, he asked if maybe he could see her again,
outside of work. She simply said it wasn’t possible.

He pressed and she explained she had two children and she couldn’t
afford a baby-sitter, so he offered to pay for the baby-sitter.
Reluctantly she accepted his offer for a date for the following
Saturday. That Saturday night he arrived at her door only to have her
tell him that she was unable to go with him. The baby-sitter had called
and canceled. To which Kurtis simply said, “Well, let’s take the kids
with us.”

She tried to explain that taking the children was not an option, but
again not taking no for an answer, he pressed. Finally Brenda, brought
him inside to meet her children. She had an older daughter who was just
as cute as a bug, Kurtis thought, then Brenda brought out her son, in a
wheelchair. He was born a paraplegic with Down Syndrome.

Kurtis asked Brenda, “I still don’t understand why the kids can’t
come with us?” Brenda was amazed. Most men would run away from a woman
with two kids, especially if one had disabilities - just like her first
husband and father of her children had done. Kurtis was not ordinary -
- - he had a different mindset.

That evening Kurtis and Brenda loaded up the kids, went to dinner
and the movies. When her son needed anything Kurtis would take care of
him. When he needed to use the restroom, he picked him up out of his
wheelchair, took him and brought him back. The kids
loved Kurtis. At the end of the evening, Brenda knew this was the
man she was going to marry and spend the rest of her life with.

A year later, they were married and Kurtis adopted both of her
children. Since then they have added two more kids.

So what happened to Kurtis the stock boy and Brenda the check-out
girl? Well, Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Warner now live in Arizona , where he is
currently employed as the quarterback of the National Football League
Arizona Cardinals and has his Cardinals in the 2009 Super Bowl. Is this
a surprise ending or could you have guessed that he was not an ordinary
person.


It should be noted that he also quarterbacked the Rams in Super Bowl
XXXVI. He has also been the NLF’s Most Valuable Player twice and the
Super Bowl’s Most Valuable Player.