Dedication

This article is dedicated to Richard Watton. For the majority of this timeline he was a co-worker and a friend.

He died in February 1999 after a battle with cancer. He was a genuinely good person and I miss him.

Every so often I play a video game that makes me think "Rich would have loved this". I suppose that's a funny way to remember someone unless you consider that most of our time together was video game related.

I will poke fun at the "career" retail employee, which Rich easily qualified as. Yet I've always felt he was different. He legitimately enjoyed the retail profession and everything that went along with it. I have no doubt he would have crawled his way up to the district manager position and beyond. It's a shame his life was cut short and my deepest condolences will always be extended to his family.