By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: November 11, 2019
Just a few months before he died, a nice man who worked at the local Walmart shared this story this morning while I was checking out:
“You know, I’ve been married 54 years.”
[long pause. you can tell he’s thinking about something.]
“One time, a long time ago, I was sitting on the couch, watching tv, and I could feel her staring at me. I mean I could just feel it. So I turned and looked at her and said, ‘What?’”
“She said, ‘You know what.’ I said, ‘No, I don’t.’ She just got up and walked away.”
“You know, to this day I still have no idea what I did.”
[long pause]
“I think sometimes in a relationship you just have to say, ‘I’m sorry,’ even if you don’t know exactly what you did or didn’t do.”