Christmas gift

It was Christmas eve. I was in bed relaxing a morning sleep. I got a phone call in my mobile. I have the very bad habit of sleeping with it in my bed side table. Anyway, it was work. Some emergency i had to sort out because it's not Christmas everywhere, in this case it was Turkey. I got up and went to the office. After some mails and phone calls i was able to know a little more that i new before. I had to wait for lunch break to end to know anything valuable. Almost no one was working in Portugal, and certainly none in our company. I had to get some food while i waited. I didn't had any breakfast.

There is a small place in front of our office where i get my morning coffee. It's a place where the market workers go. Sometimes, when i am having my coffee they are already eating their lunch. At Wednesdays they open as soon as 2 in the morning. I know that because i had to work late and even, sometimes, all night.

I went to that place, sat at the counter and asked for some food. They got me one of the two choices for the day. I eat all of it, i was starving. The woman serving came to me and was going to ask if i liked it, when she saw the empty plate, she din't. Instead she just told me "Of course you liked it, you are one of ours."

That was my Christmas gift.