[stnmtthw]

Little background... I'm a supervisor at a large food manufacturing plant. I recently got put on the graveyard shift as part of our normal rotation. The day shift starts at 5:30 am, so I get the task of taking all of the call ins and trying to call people at home to cover at 4 in the damn morning...

Anyway, at about 5:00 one of my operators calls to say that there was a wreck at a major intersection and the police were diverting traffic, so there might be a lot of people late. I told him thanks for the heads up and didn't think anything else about it. A couple of minutes later, another one of my operators called and said that there was a wreck. I said, yeah, Tim already called me. He said, but my sister's car is one of the vehicles, so I'm going to follow the ambulance to the hospital... thirty minutes later, he called back and told me that his sister and 4 year old nephew didn't make it.

Turns out that they were sitting at the stop light, waiting for the green, when a drunk in an Escalade rear ended them at 60 miles an hour, drove over the top of them, and murdered two of the three people in the car. I got the operators shift covered, filed the paperwork for his funeral leave, and went home and hugged my wife and daughter up as tight as I could...

Which brings me to my point... make a call to someone you love. Tell them how much you love them. Today. Right now. Spend time with your family. Especially with your children. It may already be too late, so make it as good as you can NOW...