22.02.10
The last piece of the money
The last piece of the moneyKam is my childhood friend, We both love music. Cham is now a successful person.
Kam said he had left an impoverished money when waiting, but rather Since then, his fate has been a miraculous transformation.
Story begins in the early 70s talking about. Kam is the time in Texas City, McKinley KYAL pop music radio show host, became acquainted with a lot of country music star, and often accompany radio bosses take the company's aircraft to a local music center to see them perform at Nashville .
One night, Cham Nashville Ryman Auditorium in viewing the famous whistle OLEOPRY Orchestra performed - the next day they were going left. After the performance, an acquaintance invited him to go backstage to meet with all OPRY star. "I can not find the paper then ask them to sign, had pulled out a piece of money," Kam told me, "to finish at a time, I got every one autographed by the singer. I have carefully preserved this piece of money, the total with the body and is determined to treasure forever. "
Later, KYAL radio stations to sell due to poor management, many employees lost their jobs overnight. Cam in Fort Worth radio station WBAP finally found a temporary worker on duty at night, waiting for the future have the opportunity to become full-time employees.
1976 to 1977, unusually cold winter, Cham retro shabby cars out of action. Life was very difficult, he was almost penniless, relying on a work at the local supermarket help of a friend, and sometimes put it out a little outdated lunch, can barely make his wife and children do not go hungry, spending money is not one.
One morning, Cham from radio work, in the parking lot to see an old yellow Dodge truck, which sat a young man. Cam to him shook his hand and drove off. At night he goes to work, they noticed the car stays in place. A few days later, he finally realized: the car every time he saw the old chap though he waved a friendly manner, but does not seem to got out too. In the biting cold, snow days, he sat there after another three days doing?
With the answer the next day: when he approached a yellow Dodge, the man rolling down the window glass, Cham recalls: "He introduced himself and said he had been staying in the car for several days - not a penny of , nor eaten a meal; he was recruited from overseas to Fort Worth, a working, but, earlier than the date agreed for three days, can not immediately go to work. "
"He was very embarrassed to asked if I could lend him a money eating a light meal in order to survive the day - tomorrow morning, he can go to work and a salary advance. I had no money to lend him - even the petrol are only enough to barely open home. I explained his situation, turned away, and my heart full of apologetic. "
At this point, Cham thought that he would not have signed a singer money, fierce inner struggle of a minute or two later, he took out his wallet, the final notes of the piece of stare for a while, came back in front, handed to him. "It's like someone wrote the word in the above." The man said, but he did not recognize that the word is more than a dozen signature pocket.
"Just the same morning, when I got home, trying to forget doing this 'stupid', the fate began to smile for me," Cham told me, "the telephone rang, and a recording chamber engagements in Dallas, I create a commercial advertisement, paid 500 U.S. dollars - was in my ears like 1 million. I rushed there, neatly completed family on that. the next few days, the more opportunities to fall from the sky, one after another. is fast, I bail out a comeback. "
Subsequent development was well known, Cham either family or career are too proud: his wife gave birth to son; his entrepreneurial success, when his boss; built villa in the rural areas. All of these are from the parking lot that morning, he sent out the last piece of money began.
Cam has never seen since that old yellow Dodge truck sat a man, and sometimes can not help but daydream: He was a beggar in the end it? Or an angel?
It does not matter, it is important: This is a test of human nature, while Cham passed.
