Well this has come as a bit of a shock.
To hear that someone so talented gained her angel wings so early? I’m guessing God looked down and saw what a great job you were doing down here, and decided to promote you early?
You inspired me! You inspired me from the moment I met you, and you’re the reason I am who I became.
Every Sunday, the kid from Gateshead would pop into yours and Vicky’s office to see if you girls needed anything from downtown.
Apart from a few envelopes to post, you never tasked me hard.
Then I wrote a letter to you, asking, begging, to be promoted into management.
2 weeks later you transferred me into an assistant manager role.
When you transferred me into management, you drove me in your convertible with your high heels on all the way from Miami to Ft Lauderdale yourself.
I just remember thinking, “Godamn, I want to be this woman!”
When you asked me to extend my contract and keep going for another 2 months, I couldn’t ever have said no.
When I called you from New York and said I was thinking about going land based again, you flew from Miami to New York to see me. You asked what would bring me back? I jokingly said, “A World Cruise on the QE2”
You didn’t flinch. You just said, “Right you are. Consider it done. Go home, get some rest, and enjoy the World Cruise!”
You were a woman of your word, and one who inspired many of us, in ways I wish you were only here to listen to.
It’s so sad that you have gone, but for your family, I’d like them to know this.
Sometimes when God needs a special job doing, he looks around to find that all of his angels are busy, and so he has no choice than to pick his best human.
You’re an angel Amanda. An absolute angel. Nothing else would describe you.
Cx
Chris Parker
15/06/2022
