So, Martin and I met because of the hearses. But it was through our job. He worked 3rd shift, and I worked 2nd. We both started about the same time, but we never really ran 8nto each other. They came on 2 hours before my shift ended, but would be taken to a different area in the store. We were on a Walmart remodel crew through a temp agency.
One of my bosses and a co worker told me that there was a guy on the night shift who is also a hearse driver. My immediate reaction was "There's ANOTHER hearse out there! AND *I* didn't notice it???"
No, they said... He's new to the area, his hearse is still in Ohio, he is going to go get it and bring it here.
"Really? Yes, I want to meet him, thats so cool! We are getting a hearse guy.."
Well, it turns out, Martin was the one that never noticed a hearse parked out in the lot. Ofcourse, I never parked where workers parked. I parked at the end of the lot where customers parked... Although there were plenty of times that I slept in her in the empty parking lot. So I was out there through out his shift, lol...
One night when they had the shifts working close to each other, my manager and co worker both came to me and said, hey, that guy is here. Right clise over here.. Come meet him.
Well, okay, I was down for that... So I followed the girls a couple isles over, they pointed him out to me in tbe bra and underwear section helping to move a rack.
They called him and he immediately came right over. They introduced us as hearse drivers. I was completely thrilled to meet another hearse person, and he... well... was happy to meet me, but had to get over the fact that I was a chic hearse driver. Apparently he had seen Stella around town, but he thought that she would have a guy driver. We instantly clicked. Kind of a... oh, I've been looking for you forever, type of click, I finally found you. Martin admitted a year later that he had felt it too. From that piint on, we always found each other as soon as his shift came in. I would go chat with him on his break as we were clocking out, then go on to Stella, where I would bed down for the night. After a while, they pushed all the shifts together onto first shift. Since I had been working 2nd and Martin had been working 3rd... we were both having to adjust. They were matching people up every morning to work together. Who you worked with changed every day.... except for Martin and I. We were matched up right away. They figured out that we work together really well and get a lot done together. So.. we were the only two that got matched together every day. We really had a good time working together. Our everyday subject was hearses. Thats all we talked about... except for when I spoke about how much I hated Mike (my then husbsnd) and sometimes would talk about Michelle (his then very new girlfriend) but for the most part... it was all about hearses. Lol..
Now, over a year later, it looks like we will be working together again. Sams, that is apart of Walmart is a company I worked for before and really had a lot of friends there and they really wanted me back, and HR was pulling for both of us to be hired on. Turns out, the manager that was at Walmart when we were on that remodel team, is now at Sams as well. With him remembering us from the remodel team, he also wanted us on.
So, cool!! Am excited to work with Martin again and how funny that its through the same company.
