Don’t Forget to Get Back Up

My mother told me this story about a man she met when she was riding the bus home from work. My mother was riding the bus home from work, and was sitting next to this man who appeared to also be coming home from work. The man seemed to be having a hard time, so my mom asked him how he was doing. Here was his reply: I came home from work 2 days ago, and my 10 year old son was sitting on the front porch. I asked him why he did not go inside. The son replied the door was locked. You should have rung the doorbell the man said. When the man checked the door, the door was locked, and when he opened it no one was home. There was a note on the mantle from his wife basically stating that she was done and she was leaving. The man told my mother that he didn’t have the best marriage but things weren’t that bad. Overall they were pretty decent. So the man...