Lottery Of Love,Take A Chance And See What Happens

Take A Chance The Lottery Of Love elita sohmer clayman We met on a blind date, I dislike that word because my mother had a brother and a sister who were both born blind and this is not a sweet word to use for a date. However, he received my name and phone number from a fellow he knew who had taken me out for half of a date. What is half of a date? It.means when you do not like that person and you make up an excuse to go home early. I met that 1/2 date fellow through a young man my boss had hired where I worked in 1952. He was hired in about 1955 because I who was an assistant to the CEO of a large printing plant urged the boss Meyer to give him a chance. His name was Irvin and the boss did not want to hire him because he was Jewish. Now Meyer was not an anti Semite, he was Jewish himself and he just thought that a young Jewish fellow would want his own business one day and after being trained as a printer, would leave as soon as he got competent in the business to start his own plant. I said to Meyer, give him a chance. We had taken him to lunch for a lunch interview at a delly called Attmans. I was impressed by his desire to learn a trade and he was getting married to Renee soon and needed a job immediately. If I tell you,his salary was about $2.00 per hour with about 20 hours of time and a half overtime, giving him probably about $140.00 per week before taxes. Meyer kept resisting and I who was about 21 at that time was already a very wise and intelligent observer of people.These were my words that got Irvin hired. "Meyer, how are you as a Jewish young man yourself not give a fellow Jewish person a chance at a new job. You and your buddies just have launched a new synagogue in our neighborhood and here you will not hire a person of your faith." He looked at this young girl of 21 and he said OK.The rest is history. Irvin and I became dear platonic friends and after he married Renee, he invited me to his home for dinner many weekends. On one such night, I met his friend who I shall call Zachary and I went out on a terrible time 1/2 date and never again would that happen with him. He was the one who gave Jerry (my husband now of 55 years) my name and number. He told him I would probably be 'easy' because I was quite pretty and I had a blond streak in my dark brown hair. In those days, not many girls did that, now everybody has different colors in their hair for beauty sake-young and old. I use to pay $5 dollars to have it done in the hair salon and it was quite outstanding.When Jerry told me on the phone that Z had given him my name, I told him for 3 consecutive phone calls, no, I was busy. Mom standing in the kitchen where the one phone we had in those lean days said after the third call "give him a chance, just because he knows Z does not make him a jerk too." So to quiet mom, I said yes and the rest is love history as I call it. We went out two nights in a row and after a few months of dating ( he was going to pharmacy school), I had his high school ring on my left finger which then was the first step of several rings leading to an engagement ring and marriage on Tuesday July 5, 1960. So the moral of this story, if you believe in something like I saw the potential in Irvin coming to work for us and you also listen to your mommie, life will change for the beautiful and you will be and should be happy. We have a son, daughter, daughter-in-law, son-in-law and 3 grandsons and one granddaughter. So one became two, then three, four, five, six and one grandchild at a time and our family starting with Elita, then Jerry is now 10. From a young woman's intuition on a young man and his hiring, love has encompassed my life for 55 years plus almost 3 more dating. Irvin stayed on to work there for 40 years and yes, indeed, he and Renee were guests at our wedding and reception. ALWAYS DO WHAT YOU KNOW IS RIGHT FOR YOU AND THOSE AROUND YOU. THERE IS A SAYING, WHEN THERE IS A ROADBLOCK IN YOUR LIFE, TAKE ANOTHER ROAD AND EVERYTHING WILL BE NEW AND FANTASTIC. STORY TITLE Take A Chance, It is the Lottery Of Love. . Comments