My cell phone rang as I sat here just now, contemplating what I should put on my blog tonight. The call was from a person that owns a well-servicing company that often does work for me. Faced with making payroll tomorrow and not having enough funds to do so, he was calling his client companies, canvassing for unpaid invoices.
“I found an invoice that you never paid. I faxed a copy to your office. It’s only a couple thousand dollars but would you please look at it tomorrow and cut me a check?”
“I apologized in advance, just in case I had failed to pay the invoice. I do not think I made a mistake, but then again I am not a perfect person. What worried me was the palpable anxiety in the man’s voice, and he and I both knew that my two thousand dollars would make little difference to the situation in which he had found himself.
This is the third such late night call that I have had in the past month, the other two, both friends, asking to borrow money, one to make payroll and the other just to buy groceries. I helped one man but was unable to assist the other.
Unlike many in the
One reason so many people love Elvis Presley is because he was a man of the people – no different from the average person on the street, except that he could sing like no other, and he eventually earned lots of money. Elvis once said, “You never know how short a month is until you have a Cadillac payment to make.” Yes, Elvis, I know how it feels, and so does the man that called me tonight.