What’s the Single Best Lesson You Can Learn?
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I challenged myself to be a part of a 30-day sprint and to post every day on LinkedIn. It’s great to connect and meet new people. But yesterday I was reminded about an even better reason, to hear from your existing connections.
Yesterday David commented on my post. I met him in IRL, closer to 15 years ago when I worked at the foundry. He drove a milk run and was the first truck of the day every Wednesday.
A milk-run is a regular delivery and pick-up. They would leave the empty milk bottles outside in an insulated cooler. The milkman would pick up the empties and replace them with full bottles of fresh milk. That’s where the term ‘milk-run came from.
David knew how to make sure we got him unloaded and reloaded again promptly each week. He never showed up empty-handed; he always had a pastry treat to start our day.
We got to know about each other’s families. Once he gave me a book for my son when I was going through my divorce.
We never minded if he asked us to reposition the freight. You see, when someone is personable you respond in…
