Kurtis The Stock Boy And Brenda The Checkout Girl

Sent to me in “one of those” types of emails, but kinda cool if true:
KURTIS THE STOCK BOY AND BRENDA THE CHECKOUT GIRL

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

Later that day, after his shift was over, he waited by the punch clock to find out her name. She came into the break room, smiled softly at him, took her card and punched out, then left. He looked at her card, BRENDA. He walked out only to see her start walking up the road. Next day, he waited outside as she left the super-market, and offered her a ride home. He looked harmless enough, and she accepted. When he dropped her off, he asked if maybe he could see her again, outside of work. She simply 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 babysitter. Reluctantly she accepted his offer for a date for 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 Kurtis simply said, “Well, let’s take the kids with us.”

She tried to explain that taking the children was not an option, but again not taking no for an answer, he pressed. Finally Brenda brought him inside to meet her children. She had an older daughter who was just as cute as a bug, Kurtis thought, then Brenda brought out her son, in a wheelchair. He was born a paraplegic with Down syndrome.

Kurtis asked Brenda, “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 had done. Kurtis was not ordinary—he had a different mindset.

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

So what happened to Kurtis the stock boy and Brenda the check-out girl? Well, Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Warner now live in Arizona, where he is currently employed as the quarterback of the National Football League Arizona Cardinals and just yesterday they qualified to play in the Super Bowl. Note: They haven’t won in the last 61 years!

Is this a surprise ending or could you have guessed that he was not an ordinary person. It should be noted that he also quarterbacked the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI. He has also been the NLF’s Most Valuable Player twice and the Super Bowl’s Most Valuable Player.

GO CARDINALS!

The gist of it is true, but the details are made up.

If some asshole demanded to see my kids on our first date, there would be cops called. As a single mother, I learned NEVER to let my kids meet the men I dated too soon lest they become more attached than I.

I understand it’s supposed to be sweet, but I see a controlling jerk who can’t take a reasonable no for an answer and/or delay his gratification until a better time. It’s not you, it’s me.

ETA: I agree with the Snopes’ writer that the true story is far more romantic and sweet than this email version.

Wow, the true story is much more inspiring than the insipid email. Thanks!

Edit: what is it with these emails anyway? What does someone or anyone get out of these blatant misrepresentations of facts? Especially in tihs case, where reality is far more interesting and uplifting than the fiction?

These things are everywhere and color all shades of life, from politics (Obama’s a muslim), to sappy love stories and everywhere in between. What a strange phenomenon. Or maybe not, since gossip and lies have always been part of the public discourse!

When you said “one of those” types of emails, I thought it was going to be a solicitation for a porn site.

Don’t worry yourself, you’ll get to see lots of Brenda looking pensive on the sidelines during the big game next weekend.

Where’s the part where Brenda called all the grocery-oriented the radio stations and said that the night manager was wrong- Kurtis’s finger was broken and THAT’S why he couldn’t bag groceries properly, and shrilly demanded that Kurtis be traded to Grand Union where he’d be appreciated?

As the wife of a wonderful man who just happens to be disabled, one of the most offense things about those glurge e-mails (to me) is how the poor cripple child (or whatever glurge variant the use to describe him or her) is always portrayed as helpless and pitiful. Disability sucks in a lot of ways, but the people who have disabilities don’t need pity and frequently don’t need that much help (just a little) - mostly what they need is for other people and their preconceived notions to get out of their way. The fact they portray the child involved as having Down’s Syndrome when he doesn’t isn’t fair to either him or people with Down’s (Down’s should not be used as short hand for “pity this person” or “brain damage” or “mental disability”, which I suspect is what happened here).

I can always tell when we run into one of the fans of glurge from the way they treat my husband. That is not meant as a compliment.

Actually, I’d prefer they not show much of her!
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Don’t the people who work in the supermarket wear friggin name tags? Why would he have to spy to find out her name?

Stalking is so cute.

Real story is much more interesting. I didn’t care who wins but now I’d like the Cardinals to win. Not that they have a chance.

Re: Urban Legends. I know they get embellished with the repeated sending/telling, but yeah, some of those you wish were true.

One of my favorites is the Eddie Murphy in the elevator one, and one of my least favorite is the one that states the driving with the headlights off is a gang-initiation, and they kill anyone who flashes their lights at them.

One night I pointed it out by posting the Snopes explanation on one of our bulletin boards, and got jumped by the nurse who put it there.

Apparently, she really wanted it to be true.

I reckon she needed some attention.:rolleyes:

Q

Man Quasi you were so lucky!

The REAL gang initiation is to post an UL and then KILL the first person who replies with a link from Snopes.