Couples meet in the strangest ways
Life is like a pinball machine, and every once in a while, God tilts the table in your favor.
In this Dec. 16, 2013 photo, a spinner and target are shown on the 1979 Incredible Hulk pinball machine at the Seattle Pinball Museum in Seattle.
By Christopher de Vinck
Jeanne De Block was Marian the librarian in Meredith Wilson’s play
The Music Man. And silly Harold Hill was the charlatan who came to town to sell band instruments but instead fell in love. Remember his plaintive call: “What can I do, my dear, to catch your ear. I love you madly, madly Madam Librarian.”
About six years ago, Rocky Hensley went to visit his longtime friend Joe Brannen, chairman and CEO of Brannen Bank.
The men had grown up together in Inverness, went to the same school that had 300 kids in the seventh through 12th grade, played ball together.
However, even though they were both career bankers, they had never worked together. Get more from the Citrus County Chronicle
It was a Monday morning and Hensley had just lost his job at CenterState Bank on Friday after that bank closed its retail branch operation, eliminating Hensleyâs position.
âWe sat down together â me, Matt (Brannen), Joe and George (Brannen) â and I told them what had happened,â Hensley said. âOne of them asked, âWhy havenât you ever worked for us before?â and I said, âYou never asked.â They said, âYou never applied,â and I said, âWell, Iâm applying now.ââ