This is like the John Mellancamp song... "A little ditty about Jack and Diane...Two American kids."  You may have seen this somewhere, I don't know, but it's a really good story and especially for this week. 

Hey, we need good guys!  We're hungry for it.  Did you know that Capt. Sully who landed the plane in the Hudson River now has over a half million facebook friends!  Four times as many as there are total members on ActiveRain.  Not bad for a day's work.  As the pro golfers say after every interview question, "It's pretty cool." 

Thanks to my friend Capt. Scotty who sent me this!

In a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy, was busily working

when a new voice came over the loud speaker asking for a carry out at register

four.  Kurtis was almost finished, and wanted to get some fresh air, and decided

to answer the call. As he approached the check-out stand a distant smile

caught his eye, the new check-out girl was beautiful.  She was an older woman

(maybe 26, and he was only 22) and he fell in love.

Later that day, after his shift was over, he waited by the

punch clock to find out her name. She came into the break room, smiled  softly at

him, took her card and punched out, then left.  He looked at her card, BRENDA.

He walked out only to see her start walking up the road.  Next day, he waited

outside as she left the supermarket, and offered her a ride home. He looked

harmless enough, and she accepted. 

When he dropped her off, he asked if maybe he could

see her again, outside of work.  She simply said it wasn't possible.

He pressed and she explained she had two children and she

couldn't afford a baby-sitter, so he offered to pay for the baby-sitter.

Reluctantly she accepted his offer for a date for the following Saturday.  That

Saturday night he arrived at her door only to have her tell him that she was unable to

go with him. The baby-sitter had called and canceled. To which Kurtis simply

said, "Well, let's take the kids with us."  She tried to explain that taking the children was not an

option, but again not taking no for an answer, he pressed.  Finally Brenda, brought

him inside to meet  her children.  She had an older daughter who was just as cute

as a bug, Kurtis thought, then Brenda brought out her son, in a wheelchair.  He

was born a paraplegic with Down Syndrome.

Kurtis asked Brenda, "I still don't understand why the kids

can't come with us?"  Brenda was amazed. Most men would run away

from a woman with two kids, especially if one had disabilities - just like

her first husband and father of her children had done.  Kurtis was not ordinary

- - - he had a different mindset.

That evening Kurtis and Brenda loaded up the kids, went to

dinner and the movies. When her son needed anything Kurtis would take care of

him.  When he needed to use the restroom, he picked him up out of his

wheelchair, took him and brought him back.  The kids loved Kurtis.  At the end of the

evening, Brenda knew this was the man she was going to marry and spend the

rest of her life with.

A year later, they were married and Kurtis adopted both of her

children.  Since then they have added two more kids.

So what happened to Kurtis the stock boy and Brenda the

check-out girl? 

Well, Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Warner now live in Arizona , where he is

currently employed as the quarterback of the National Football League Arizona

Cardinals and has his Cardinals playing the Pittsburg Steelers in the Super

Bowl (XLIII) on Sunday.  Is this a surprise ending or could you have guessed that he was not an

ordinary person. 

It should be noted that he also quarterbacked the Rams in

Super Bowl XXXVI. He has also been the NLF's Most Valuable Player twice

and the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player. 

See you at the Superbowl!