With A home for

The summer, things around here are quite hectic. A has 3 jobs and is taking an Anatomy class at the local UNC campus.

A has her lifeguard job, she coaches the pool swim team (and gets paid for it) and works at a local relatively fast food restaurant called Cook-Out at night when the pool is closed. By at night, this is from 9PM or so until close. These folks close at 2AM Sunday through Wednesday and until 4AM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A gets home around 3AM on some days and around 5AM when she works the weekends.

When she is not working, she is studying or sleeping. The best part about this is she has very little time to get into too much trouble. She is either working, studying or sleeping.

I think that A is getting exposed to more of America than she expected. Cook-out is a drive through/walk-up only type restaurant with no indoor seating on a busy corner. She is the only person of her race working at this restaurant. She has seen: many people ordering at the drive through with guns in their laps, some pretty wicked fights in a parking lot across the street and even a gunshot or two from her perch at the restaurant. This restaurant is only about 3 miles from our home, yet a world away.

The place has a significant safety program in place for closers at 3/4/5 AM to prevent possible problems. All of the money goes into the safe that cannot be opened by any single person. Also, when it is time to leave, some of the people go to their cars while others remain in the building. Once safely in their cars, locked, cell phones in hand and started, the others then head for their cars.

It has been really interesting to hear the stories that A brings home, even at 5 AM. I told you the drama would increase, but you did not believe me.

Hope your week is a good one.