30 days since Hilton s death........ ( A little story about his first cut at work)

My office is doing bereavement counselling today,

I was ask not to come,

I like the rest of my family are have a tough time handling this new normal without hilton.

My team at byrne partners and stadia have work with him for 5.5 years 20 months full time and 4 years part-time

And are having a tough time too......
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I remember that fist summer he work at the shop,

I had just purchased the company from my brothers and Hilton and I were in the shop he was 15 years old...

(Off the record: WSIB is gonna kill me....)

Deep breath....

He was 15 and we were moving glass in the shop..
In aurora...

I tipped this piece of glass toward hilton flat up on edge, corner , in the biz its called rolling....

We were on our 50th piece and pretty comfortable doing this task...

Hilton look the wrong way and boom as I rolled it up his hand got pinched between the glass and a rack and ouch right through the glass gloves I cut his finger right next to his pinky on his right hand...

And its a bleeder.....
Good meat,
so....un - like my dad who would handed me a roll of masking tape...

Off to the hospital we went... I told hilti to shut up as we walk in because he is not allowed by law to. Work in the shop until he is 16....

Which is stupid in my books... But whatever....

As the doctor comes in...
With a tray , needles, and alcohol wipes...

Hilton is gonna get his first 3 stitches in his hand...

I said... Son.... Welcome to the business.... This was your real first day of your 50 year career in the glass business.........

He look so pissed off,
he said: no way......I am not I doing this for the rest of my life!!!!!..
as the doctor is sticking him with his first stitch.......

I giggled..... A little, and actually held his other hand to help manage the fear and the pain...
His hand was dirty, and rough like a man........


Ironic.......

this past summer he told me that he want to run the company..

(Sigh)