They Ran In While You Ran Out

I awoke to the familiar sounds of the Sears Carpet and Upholstery van hard at work next door.  My middle school bus stop was in front of El Cholo's Mexican restaurant in Johnson City, NY - the same El Cholo's Mexican restaurant in Johnson City, NY that featured all-you-can-drink Margaritas every Wednesday evening.  Coincidentally, the car carpet cleaners were already cleaning the vomit stains when we arrived at the bus stop on Thursdays.

I can only hope that these brave Sears Carpet and Upholstery cleaners are successful in their intrepid mission to clean up the goat blood from Calamity Jane's ritual sacrifice to the god Ba'al.  Please Lord, keep their blue tubes of suction safe in times of peril and deliver our brave Sears Carpet and Upholstery cleaners from every harm and wile of Satan.  

These cleaners are the Real Heroes; not local law enforcement, one-legged Sudanese basketball players or volunteer firefighters.  Real heroes who put their well-being on the line every day of every year while protecting the carpets of the world from the insurgence of coffee stains.  

Never forget.