“I’ll just be a minute,” Benito shooed his family ahead. “Don’t want you catching cold.”
He rubbed his gloved hands together. The temperature had dropped over twenty degrees in the last few hours.
“Especially you, Junior!” he pointed at his youngest. The boy had weak lungs and had just finished another long course of antibiotics. “In you go.”
“Oh, no, you’re not!” Maria planted her feet in front of her husband. “You are coming in with us. Right now. There will be no shoveling by you today. Boss Manuel insisted. Today you are a guest. After all, it is your birthday!”
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Na'ama Yehuda 
You just can’t hold a good employee down!
Personally, were it MY birthday? I’d eat elsewhere… unless of course, they are offering the meal on the house 😉
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I have a feeling it’ll be on the house. … I have a good feeling about his boss. And I don’t think Maria would stand for anything less … 😉
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Then I like this boss. And Maria especially 😉
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Yeah! 🙂 Me three!
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Aww, Boss Manuel has a heart. At least for today
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Yep, and I have a feeling, perhaps for more than just today (at least if he knows a good deal when he has it!!)
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I’ve known a lot of selfless people just like Benito. Bless his heart, he needs to be spoiled for a day. Good story, Na’ama.
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Thank you! Yes, there are a lot of good, hardworking, responsible, caring people around, and they are well worth holding on to, as it seems Manuel knows! 🙂
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🙂
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Benito’s quite a gentleman and so is Boss Manuel
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Thanks, Larry, yes, I think that they are both good men. 🙂
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Na’ama Y’karah,
Here’s a toast to a Benitos feliz cumpleaños. 😀 Lovely story. Makes me smile that his service is being acknowledged.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Yeah! The shovels leaning against that door had me thinking of those who shovel the snow to clear the path for the restaurant’s patrons to get in … and I thought to myself, in such a nice place, there ought to be some nice people … 🙂
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Who doesn’t like a birthday treat. Hope he makes the most of it.
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I think he would, Iain. He sounds like the kind of a man who’d enjoy life and appreciate the many blessings of it. 🙂
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Such polite and kind-hearted people. Where did you find them? My micro-fictions tend to attract the dark and nasty.
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I’m fortunate that my fiction seems to have a steady crop of nice ones, too! 🙂
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So true. I don’t often have to grab safety helmet 🙂
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LOL! I have some stowaways of the meaner disposition once in a while … they do catch me by surprise much of the time … 😉
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Offering a little bit of balance, hey 🙂
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Yep. We don’t wanna have the world to tip and toss us all overboard … 😉
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Absolutely not 🙂
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🙂
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Hope he has a great day. I have a feeling he can’t sit still.
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Amen! And … yes, I have a feeling you are correct … 😉
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What a nice boss! I bet he’ll have to work twice as hard tomorrow, though 🙂
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With that snow? Probably … 😉
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He ought to keep that boss. Seems okay 🙂
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I agree! Some bosses are keepers! 🙂
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I like that! A story based on a generous action. Lovely! I love the character of Maria. You’ve made her very believable.
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Thanks, Penny! I think I like everyone in that story! 🙂
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Mama Maria is one tough lady 🙂
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Yep, she is! 🙂
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What a delightful, happy ending! Thank you!
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Glad you liked it, Alicia! 🙂
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Lovely story.
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🙂 Thank you, Sandra!
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What a warm ending… good.
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Yay! Glad you liked it! 🙂 Warming indeed, eh? 🙂
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He was saved! One less snowstorm to have to deal with. Very nice story!
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Yes! He was saved! 🙂 And … while someone had to shovel, for that one night, it wasn’t him! 🙂 Thanks, Nan! 🙂
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