I see dead people...
if you've known me for any amount of time you have probably heard about my life as a child. Finding the dead persons, being parked beside the dead person in the trunk, the drive by shooting, and the time when I found the crack. Most of the stories are quite comical, that is until I realize how bazaar it is for one person to experience all of these things before the age of 15.
after you've seen what i've seen it seems nothing would surprise you. a few weeks ago i witnessed a car vs motorcycle accident in which he motorcylce went under the car that hit it while the man flew over the car and landed head first on the road. about a year ago i witnessed a car back over a man and pin him against a wooden post where he stayed until the ambulance arrived and several men lifted the car while the paramedics untangled his mangled leg. My jr. year in high school I drove past a decapitated man on the side of the road on my way to class...
the point of all this is to make you understand why tonight was such a normal yet disturbing occurrence.
<> a few nights a homeless man came up to pizza hut while i was closing. he told me his sob story about how he was evicted from his house a few weeks ago and he and his wife were living in a van parked in the parking lot. He told me he'd do anything for some food. i handed him a broom and asked him to sweep the parking lot and id feed him and his wife. so after he swept i kept to my part of the bargain and made him a large pizza, gave them some drinks, wings, napkins, plates, and all the good stuff that goes with the pizza like extra sauce. i deal with homeless people asking for food a lot because where i work there are about 8 of them who live in the woods not far from us. my answer has always been no, we don't give out free food because they ask for it often. they are always behind our store drinking beer and i feel like they are just working people because they don't want to get up and get a job. however, there was something different about this man and his wife. i felt really bad for them, gave them the name of a few low income housing places that have a short wait list and told him we were hiring daytime help doing dishes, its not much, but it can help get him on his feet. he appeared to be very interested.
i never noticed the white van in the parking lot before that night but the past few nights i looked for him and his wife and saw the van there. i said hi a few times, asked how things were going, gave them a few bucks a couple of times and went on with my business. tonight i was driving and i saw him holding a sign on the corner, hungry please help. i drove by.
later that night a driver called the store and informed us that north bound 98 was blocked because there was a pedestrian vs car accident and the pedestrian lost...2 hours later i was going south on 98 delivering a pizza and low and behold, the person who was hit was still in the middle of the road. lying on his back, his knee twisted in such a way his leg was angled beside him, his head facing toward me and a stream of blood still present on the pavement. I looked, and it appeared to be the man only a few nights early i gave a pizza to. The police was standing around him with spot lights taking photos...only one side of the road was blocked he had no blanket covering him...in their eyes he was a bum no one would miss.
i felt sick to my stomach...i still do....but i delivered my pizza and drove back to pizza hut where i saw his van in our parking lot and his wife sitting outside feeding their two cats....i drove by.
if i don't see the man by tomorrow, ill tell his wife what i suspect happened. regardless of if it was him or not, seeing the police treat this person with such little respect sickens me...no tarp covering him, no tarp even near him, just a poor old man laying lifeless in the middle of the street hours after the accident had occurred.
the world breaks my heart time after time.
after you've seen what i've seen it seems nothing would surprise you. a few weeks ago i witnessed a car vs motorcycle accident in which he motorcylce went under the car that hit it while the man flew over the car and landed head first on the road. about a year ago i witnessed a car back over a man and pin him against a wooden post where he stayed until the ambulance arrived and several men lifted the car while the paramedics untangled his mangled leg. My jr. year in high school I drove past a decapitated man on the side of the road on my way to class...
the point of all this is to make you understand why tonight was such a normal yet disturbing occurrence.
<> a few nights a homeless man came up to pizza hut while i was closing. he told me his sob story about how he was evicted from his house a few weeks ago and he and his wife were living in a van parked in the parking lot. He told me he'd do anything for some food. i handed him a broom and asked him to sweep the parking lot and id feed him and his wife. so after he swept i kept to my part of the bargain and made him a large pizza, gave them some drinks, wings, napkins, plates, and all the good stuff that goes with the pizza like extra sauce. i deal with homeless people asking for food a lot because where i work there are about 8 of them who live in the woods not far from us. my answer has always been no, we don't give out free food because they ask for it often. they are always behind our store drinking beer and i feel like they are just working people because they don't want to get up and get a job. however, there was something different about this man and his wife. i felt really bad for them, gave them the name of a few low income housing places that have a short wait list and told him we were hiring daytime help doing dishes, its not much, but it can help get him on his feet. he appeared to be very interested.
i never noticed the white van in the parking lot before that night but the past few nights i looked for him and his wife and saw the van there. i said hi a few times, asked how things were going, gave them a few bucks a couple of times and went on with my business. tonight i was driving and i saw him holding a sign on the corner, hungry please help. i drove by.
later that night a driver called the store and informed us that north bound 98 was blocked because there was a pedestrian vs car accident and the pedestrian lost...2 hours later i was going south on 98 delivering a pizza and low and behold, the person who was hit was still in the middle of the road. lying on his back, his knee twisted in such a way his leg was angled beside him, his head facing toward me and a stream of blood still present on the pavement. I looked, and it appeared to be the man only a few nights early i gave a pizza to. The police was standing around him with spot lights taking photos...only one side of the road was blocked he had no blanket covering him...in their eyes he was a bum no one would miss.
i felt sick to my stomach...i still do....but i delivered my pizza and drove back to pizza hut where i saw his van in our parking lot and his wife sitting outside feeding their two cats....i drove by.
if i don't see the man by tomorrow, ill tell his wife what i suspect happened. regardless of if it was him or not, seeing the police treat this person with such little respect sickens me...no tarp covering him, no tarp even near him, just a poor old man laying lifeless in the middle of the street hours after the accident had occurred.
the world breaks my heart time after time.