LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

 (A TRUE STORY)

In a supermarket, Kurt the stock boy, was busily working when a new voice came over the loudspeaker asking for a carry out at cash register 4. Kurt was almost finished, and wanted to get some fresh air, and decided to answer the call. As he approached the check-out stand his eyes caught the new check out girl, she was beautiful. She was an older woman (maybe 26, and he was only 22) and he fell in love.

After his shift was over, he waited by the punch clock to find out her name. She came into the break room, looked at him and took her card and punched out, then left. He looked at her card, BRENDA. He followed her out and saw her start walking up the road.

The 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 he could see her again, outside of work. She 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 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 Kurt said, "Well, lets take the kids with us."

She tried to explain that taking the children was not an option, but again he wouldn't take no for an answer. Finally Brenda brought him inside to meet her children. She had an older daughter who was cute as a bug, Kurt thought. Then Brenda brought out her son, in a wheelchair, he was born a paraplegic with down syndrome. Kurt just said, "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 did.

That evening Kurt and Brenda loaded up the kids, went to dinner and the movies. When her son needed anything Kurt would take care of him. When he needed to use the rest room, he picked him up out of his chair, took him, brought him back. The kids loved Kurt. 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 Kurt adopted both of her children and since then they have added two more kids.

So what happened to the stock boy and check out girl? Kurt and Brenda Warner now live in St. Louis, where he is employed by the St. Louis Rams and plays quarterback. You can catch him Sunday evening in the Super Bowl.