[TRUE STORY] Ten years as a gate guard, today I finally figured something out

Tenth year on the job, raining today, an old man walking in said "thanks for your hard work" to me on his way past. I sat in the booth for half an hour and it hit me: what I'd been waiting for all these ten years wasn't a promotion, it was just someone saying that. Posting this purely to remember it, nothing more.

Bro, with writing like that you should switch careers, don't stay in that booth.

Teared up reading this, not even sure why, maybe because I worked the front desk once too.

When did this Ba turn into a storytelling forum, but this one deserves a bump, way more interesting than basketball.