Get yourself to a doctor!”
That afternoon as Dad drove home through the__8__,
he found it impossible to see. A mile up the road, he__9__into the back of a physician's car.
With his license revoked(吊销), there was no__10__but to move our parents to Virginia where we could drive them around town.
I found Dad a parttime job at a mall within walking distance.
Before the mall opened each day, Dad would__11__Dillard's department store. There, he'd clean the floors and__12__all the trash cans.
“I'm the __13__man on the Earth,” he'd comment on the rainy or cold days.
“I have a wonderful wife, two terrific sons and their families, a job that I love, and a little spare__14__in my pocket.
It doesn't get any__15__than that!”
I often wondered why the manager at Dillard's__16__to keep Dad on.
His eyesight was so bad that he couldn't possibly see well enough to clean__17__.
One morning, I looked through the perfume counter__18__for Dad to get off work.
I could hear him singing in the distance as he__19__. Suddenly, one of the sales clerks chuckled(轻声地笑).
“Come on, Mr.
Lucky,
tell me another joke to brighten my morning.”
I spotted the manager of the store quietly chuckling nearby.
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