*CH 11-15 C

September 12, 1935

     Today, like any other day I went to work at the coffee shop and I was minding my own business. Serving the truckers that came in as quickly as possible as to make a lasting impression so that they would want to come back. You see it's very important to have happy costumers on trucker route because they talk to each other, and word will get around weather it be good or bad, word will get around. 
     Now you see not every trucker is one for business, some of them just wanna come in an take advantage of you. They is come in and try talking you up. When that happen, well Al takes care of them and then we don't see them no more at our coffee shop. Our coffee shop isn't like that. We is just trying to make it by peacefully. We don't ask for no trouble and hope that no trouble comes our way. 
     Sometimes like today there are rumors that truckers will come in an try an steel something from you. When evers I hear that I gotta be extra careful an protective of my shop. Ain't no one gonna steel from my shop. 
     So when I see a  man coming in with two children I is thinking to myself that maybe he's kidnapped them. I don't like thinking this way, but I gotta in order to protect my shop. He came on in and asked me for a loaf of bread for 10 cents. I tried telling him off until Al stepped in. You see Al has a better eye for the good and bad people than I do. He knows them all well. Anyway when I see that they were just there for a loaf of bread my head started running well again and I saw that those two little children were eyeing some of the nickel candy, So I told their old man that they were a penny each. Figured I'd come off as a nice person and make up for my wrong mistake. 
     Sometimes they just make you feel bad for judging them. Other times they get into your head and take advantage of you. Just the way it is out here. Can't change it.
     If there was one thing I learned today is that being nice will pay off and give you good karma, cuz Ill tell ya straight up, when those children left, the people sitting at my shop saw it, and when they left, they left me a dandy tip for what I did. Maybe the world isn't all bad after all, but what do I know I'm just some waitress at a coffee shop along route 66.


Mae