Not enough time in the day?

[Riverpigusmc]

Maybe after this is considered there just might be a bit of time for what is really important.

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.

SON: ‘Daddy, may I ask you a question?’

DAD: ‘Yea...h sure, what it is?’ replied the man.

SON: ‘Daddy, how much do you make an hour?’

DAD: ‘That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?’ the man said angrily.

SON: ‘I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?’

DAD: ‘If you must know, I make $50 an hour.’

SON: ‘Oh,’ the little boy replied, with his head down.

SON: ‘Daddy, may I please borrow $25?’

The father was furious, ‘If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I don’t work hard everyday for such childish frivolities.’

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.

The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy’s questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?

After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think:

Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $25.00 and he really didn’t ask for money very often The man went to the door of the little boy’s room and opened the door.

‘Are you asleep, son?’ He asked.

‘No daddy, I’m awake,’ replied the boy.

‘I’ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier’ said the man. ‘It’s been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here’s the $25 you asked for.’

The little boy sat straight up, smiling. ‘Oh, thank you daddy!’ he yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills.

The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again.

The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.

‘Why do you want more money if you already have some?’ the father grumbled.

‘Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do,’ the little boy replied.

‘Daddy, I have $50 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.’

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness.
It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts.

Do remember to share that worth of your time with someone you love. If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of hours... But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.

[Boats]

Well said, , and so true.

We all need reminding from time to time.

"When you coming home son?

I don't know when.

But we'll get together then, Dad.

We're gonna have a good time then."

-- Harry Chapin

[Roverron]

My boys are grown! Now, it's more expensive when my wife does that to me!

[Boats]

Don't think it just applies to the kids, Ron.

There's always someone important in your life that should probably get more of your time.

Or your guns. Like me. Maybe I should get some of your guns.

Happy Valentines Day!

Tom

[Roverron]

Originally Posted by Boats

Don't think it just applies to the kids, Ron.

There's always someone important in your life that should probably get more of your time.

Or your guns. Like me. Maybe I should get some of your guns.

Happy Valentines Day!

Tom

Tom, I agree since our kids are grown its wifey and myself,and our duece and friends....maybe not all in that order!
We love it all!
Happy Valentines Day, my friend!
Ron

[douglas_knott]

I try to spend plenty of time with my son. They grow up way too fast and life is way too short. I love every minute of my time with him. No one will take that from me, i assure you. This photo was taken Oct, 31st 2012.

[deputybpfife]

Good looking family, !

Yes, time runs away from us so fast. I remember bring my daughter home for the first time. She's now in college two hours away, and I don't get to see her very often. I wish I could go back in time and do some things over again, but I can't.

I love my family! Thanks for sharing, !

[douglas_knott]

Originally Posted by deputybpfife

Good looking family, !

Yes, time runs away from us so fast. I remember bring my daughter home for the first time. She's now in college two hours away, and I don't get to see her very often. I wish I could go back in time and do some things over again, but I can't.

I love my family! Thanks for sharing, !

Thank you Sir. That was a happy day for me. Will always be in my memory.

[BlackKnight]

If I may share a story with you gentlemen. Please bear with me as this is rather long. I actually had to bring out the laptop so I can type. Much better than the Ipad.

Anyway, when I was sworn in my eldest daughter was 3 months and 3 days old.
I knew the job was going to take a lot of my time from my family and we were going to have to sacrifice a lot. My agency is unique in that I was immediately assigned to narcotics and I was a U/C. Interesting to say the least, but I made every effort to spend all my free time with my wife and child.

Fast forward to 1998, my daughter was not yet 3. Through a series of events I was assigned to then the United Customs Service. It was a prestigious assignment and guaranteed and extra $15,000.00 a year in overtime. I was assigned to an international airport in my area. I was excited and jumped into my assignment with relish and excitement.
Come to find out that the hours were 1p to 9p and if I caught duty that night it was 4p to 12a.

Since my wife had to work as well my daughter was in daycare. So I would take her in the morning, but by the time I got home she was asleep. It was really getting to me and I was feeling the lack of time spent with my daughter. I was there almost a year. At that time these were 3 to 5 year assignment, minimum. I was really debating asking to come back.
I didn't really want to say anything as I didn't want come across as an ingrate. Again, these kind of assignments were considered a "perc" and not everyone would get them. Also, once you were done with these assignments you could pretty much write your ticket in my department.

So, for the time being I suffered through it until one day I'm sitting in the office and my wife calls me. As I answered the phone I hear my daughter bawling in the background. She was screaming bloody murder. I got scared. I thought she got hurt or something.
Turned out that my wife arrived home as normal from work and picking her up from daycare. As she entered the house my daughter ran in looking for me. She couldn't find me. She immediately started crying and saying "I lost my daddy." "My daddy is gone." Somebody took my daddy."
My wife tried to explain to her that I was just working late. My daughter just could not wrap her head around that. It broke my heart. I immediately took the rest of the night off and went home. My daughter would not leave my side until she went to bed.
The next day I went to work and wrote a memo asking to return to my office. Never regretted it, although I had a Lieutenant back then pretty much tell me that I made a mistake and shouldn't have done it. Bullshit! My family comes first.

My eldest is now 18 in college and I have a younger one that is 13. Fortunately the 18 year old commutes so she's still home. Even now though, I get called out on investigations that sometimes they don't see me awake for a week at a minimum. When that happens I make it a point that the first free day I have we do something together as a family. We'll go shopping, movies, and dinner.
I'm also fortunate in that I do ok in the OT department so we go on exotics vacations. Two years ago for my wife and I 20 year wedding anniversary we went to Hawaii for a week. This year I'm looking at the Cayman Islands or Turks and Caicos.

Gentlemen I introduce to you my family. I am truly blessed. My wife Lizette, my younger Arianna and Alexis my eldest. This was last year as my daughter won a college scholarship offered by the NJ Honor Legion.

[douglas_knott]

very nice . Good story. Thank you