Some Lady, wow

As many of you may already know, I work at King Soopers. Like every other job out there, it has it positives and negatives, but for the most part it sucks. Anyways, I was working today and a customer with quite a story came in. To begin the story, I was showing a customer where iced tea was and she approached me. She looked at my name tag and unlike any other customer in the history of the world called me by my name. She said, "Shaun, can you help me get some cigarettes?" I automatically considered her in a elite group of King Soopers customers because she called me by my name and replied, "Yes". I started walking toward the cigarettes to fulfill her request of a certain type of death sticks. As I walked (she following closely behind me) toward the cigarettes, she said, "I don't smoke the cigarettes they are for my friend whom I came to visit". Disregarding this comment, I asked her what type of cigarettes she wanted. She hesitated and pulled out a piece of paper with writing on it, which read the brand of cigarettes she wanted. She said, "I need two packs of Virginia Slims". I went and looked for the rolled up tobacco but we didn't carry that kind. I ended up giving her two packs of the Marlboro 100's. After I gave them to her she said, "I appreciate your help so much, its such a difficult day for me". I didn't really give much thought to her comment and I just replied, "You're welcome". After I said that, she started breaking down and crying in front of me (Shocking, I was like OOOOHHHHH MMMMYYY GGGOOOODDD!) She then started telling me why this day has been so hard for her. She said she lived in Boston with her Mom and she arrived here at 7:00 this morning (keep in mind this took place at about 10:30 a.m.). She said she got word that her best friend, who lived out here was dying and she immediately came out when she found out. She said the cigarettes were for her friend and they were one of her last requests.
By this point, I was affected by this entire thing too (just wait, it gets worse). So I told her I hope her friend gets better. She then said that was the least of her problems, because right when she arrived here in Colorado, she got word of her Mom dying back in Boston the night before (when she was on her way out here to visit her dying best friend). When she said this I didn't even know what to say while she was crying. I just said I'm really sorry and that I hope your friend feels better. She then hugged me and left to go see her dying best friend.
This is a really sad event I experienced today. I learned that I'm lucky to have my friends and my family alive. That lady has it rough and I saw it first-hand. I really hope her friend gets better for her sake. Thanks for your time, especially Sammy who has college homework to do.

Until next time,

Shaun Hicks

Expierences and Lessons

These first couple blogs are my beginning strides and I will not disappoint later in the race (unlike Big Brown). So I went to the Rockies game tonight, (even though Joey T. still thinks I didn't go, so don't tell him!) and I met a very good man. It was the third inning and I was enjoying the game and all of a sudden my stomach growled extremely loud, to the extent where most of the stadium looked to the sky for thunder! Anyways, I wanted some seeds too and for some retarded reason they aren't sold anywhere in Coors Field. I got up from my seat and remembered a very solid hot dog stand outside of left field which also had seeds! I thought I would swing by there and kill two birds with one stone (hot dogs and seeds in one place!) I walked to the hot dog stand and saw the man with the plan, the best vendor in LoDo named Joel. I ordered two hot dogs, a drink and a bag of seeds for an unprecedented price of $5!!! He fulfilled my order and gave it to me and I get ready to pay the man until...................I reach into my pocket and only have a credit card. I told him I didn't have cash and we nervously exchanged stares for a few seconds. Then he said, "Do you come to many games?" I replied, "Yes!!!".
So then he said, " just pay me later". I was really in luck, Wow what a relief! So I told him I would pay him back this week fo' sho'. He smiled and said, "My name is Joel, whats yours?" I replied, "Shaun!!" We then shook hands and a friendship was born. I plan to pay him back with interest for his extended courtesy.
You may be thinking why Is Shaun blogging about this? Well, This incident taught me a very important life lesson; If you are ever in LoDo around the time of a Rockies game, get a good hot dog from Joel the vendor, and doing that little extra thing goes a long way. He could have just rejected my order and told me to get lost. But no, he openly accepted me and gave me the best deal in Denver. He gave that little something extra that made all the difference. Joel is a very good man and I plan to become a regular around his street corner. He didn't have to do this, but he did, and that's what needs to happen more often in the world. People doing good things for others expecting nothing in return, just like Joel did for me. Thanks for your time.

Until Next time,

-Shaun Hicks

The Ultimate Challenge

Consider this an invitation to my bloggin' nation. First and foremost big ups to the Celtics, even though the big three put the finals on thier back and went all the way. This would have never been possible with just Paul Pierce (as proven last year). After the game last night KG announced, "AAAAAnything IIIIIIIsss PPPPPossible". If this saying is true, and KG is an honest man, then I will eventually reach my ultimate goal for which I even started this bloggin' stuff in the first place. All iv'e got to say is that if I am going to accomplish this, I have to beat out a current blogging expert. He has proven himself through like a hundred blogs, and has established himself on the blogging scene like the great wall is established in China. Anyways, I definitely have my work cut out for me. Right now, I am not even considered a bug on the bottom of his blogging shoe, but I am going to jack him of his bloggin' title (G-UNIT!). Just wait, Im still underground and he went mainstream, that means my lyrics are still from the heart. This is like a rap battle between Nas when he made illmatic versus the current T-Pain, me being Nas. I'm just still metaphorically livin in the Queens bridge projects, and havn't released my best stuff yet. My bloggin' rival has no idea that I have officially dedicated myself to his ultimate destruction. This quote perfectly depicts my feelings toward this mission, "ALL I NEED IS ONE LIFE, ONE TRY, ONE BREATH I'M ONE MAN WHAT I STAND FOR SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND Or wanna see me on top, too egotistical Talkin all that slick shit, the same way these bitches do".

Until next time,

-Shaun

Where it all started

This is the beginning of my blogging career, and hopefully it turns out to be more illustrious than Ryan Leaf's professional football career or Lenny Bias's pro basketball career. Anyways, this blog can serve me as a useful spot to pour out some feelings and thoughts, and hopefully it will serve you as a resource to better understand the inner-workings of Shaun Hicks. I hope to someday become half the blogger that my #1 influence Joe Tusa is! It's like that kid pours his soul onto the keyboard and the result is an incredible blog, that is a definite bundle of joy to read! (shout-out to Sammy Chen). I have no major complaints about my life right now, I'm just soakin' it all in right now. It's been a pretty solid run for me thus far and hopefully I have several good times to come! As a matter of fact, my life is really pretty good. I am extremely fortunate to have everything I've got. I think sometimes people overlook things they have, or take things for granted. You have to appreciate your family and show everybody love and respect cuz they deserve it. I have a ton of thoughts and ideas I can run with so stay tuned! Thanks for your time.

"Remember in the end, nobody wins unless everybody wins." -Bruce Springsteen (The Boss)

Until next time,

-Shaun Hicks