in Musings

Workout or job?

On my walk to pick Travis up from school I passed the neighborhood mailman. Wondering what he might think of the frigid weather, I stopped to ask.

“You work outside a lot, right?”

He nodded.

“Which do you prefer: blazing hot or freezing cold?”

Without hesitation he answered, “blazing hot.”

“Really?”

“Yeah,” he said. “When it’s blazing hot I can carry extra water and it feels like a workout. When it’s freezing cold, well … that’s when it feels like a job!”