Appreciated today, but so easily and quickly forgotten the next day. posted 8/27/2009 9:41:44 AM | 5 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: death, friend, orphans, mother, life

Always_Striving

Today I was reminded of a female gas station cashier, at the ARCO AM/PM, whom I used to say hi to and chat for about 15 seconds everyday when I would go in to buy my morning breakfast of a coffee and breakfast burrito before going to work.
She was pretty cool and kind of flirty and many times I looked forward to seeing her there on my visit (Her name was Pam).

One day I went during the afternoon to purchase gas and saw a 1 gallon almost empty plastic mayonnaise container with her photo on it at the cashiers counter. It had a few dollar bills and coins inside. I was wondering.... what is this all about? Is she sick in the hospital? Is she just trying to get tips because the job doesn't pay well?
I asked the on duty cashier about the plastic jar with money in it and her photo on it. He told me that she died. I did not ask him for any other details. I knew that she was young in her mid 20's.

I returned to the AM/PM one week later and saw the mayonnaise container still there with barely little more money since the last time I was in the store.
I thought this poor gal had smiled and said kind things to people for the last 10 years I had been going there and this is the kind of respect she gets?????

I had asked the current female cashier, who knew her deceased coworker much better than the other guy I had talked to a week earlier, about her death. She told me that she had died in her car just as she was preparing to start her car in the parking lot of the supermarket where she had been shopping. She was discovered 3 hours later by a passerby that noticed 2 little girls crying in the car next to an unconscious woman. The 2 girls were her daughters and they had been trying to waken their mom for more than 3 hours. She had died in the car with her 2 daughters present.

The female cashier whom I was asking these questions also told me that the woman's parents were poor and trying to raise money with the plastic mayonnaise container to help pay for misc. expenses. I looked at the jar again and saw how empty it appeared.

I thought so this is what life amounts to for that woman.

I mentioned this incident in this forum..... Your Last Acquaintance about halfway down the page.

(I was inspired from this blog: The Death Of A Coworker........ )

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