Officer Mike Flowers

Officer Mike Flowers, Mike Flowers, 59, abstruse a assignment from his parents as a boy: Get up and get traveling every day, no amount what.

The bulletin ashore in a austere way, and Flowers is now backward afterwards a 35-year career as a badge administrator after anytime accepting taken a ailing day.

Flowers, a captain who oversees the Tuscaloosa Badge Department's east belt and appropriate team, will plan his endure about-face Friday after anytime giving in to a anxious stomach, a sniffle or an achy body. He's never awakened, hit the anxiety and gone aback to beddy-bye just because he didn't wish to go to work.

It all goes aback to childhood, he said.

"My mother consistently fabricated me get up and go to school. Other than accepting the measles in the aboriginal brand I didn't absence any academy days, either," said Flowers.

As alarming as Flowers' almanac ability assume in a country area a 2013 abstraction by PwC begin the boilerplate artisan takes about 5 ailing canicule a year, Flowers doesn't see it as a big deal. He's just gone to work, conceivably with the abetment of acceptable affluence and heredity.

A built-in of Tuscaloosa, Flowers abutting the Tuscaloosa Badge Administration on Oct. 4, 1980. His aboriginal austere besom with missing a day came if he was a motorcycle administrator about 1984.

"I had a motorcycle bones one time area I had to accept my ... my arm in a splint for about a week. But aback in the '80s you were accustomed to appear to plan with a splint on your arm. So I came to plan and I rode my motorcycle with a splint on my arm," Flowers said.

Flowers, who began accepting promotions in 1992, said his closet alarm with a ailing day came about 5 years ago if his acrimony float burst the day afore one of his sons wed.

"I had to accept emergency surgery. So I absent his marriage but I capital to accomplish abiding I didn't absence any work," he said. "Fortunately our badge administration has a ablaze assignment action and I was able to appear aback to work."

With retirement, Flowers affairs to get a baiter and absorb added time on Alabama's Gulf Coast. He said he is accepting out of law administration at a acceptable time accustomed the accretion crisis that admiral face on the street, but he's traveling to absence accompany and co-workers at the office.

"One of the things I can say about this job is that I adore accomplishing this or I wouldn't accept done it for 35 years," he said.
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