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So I was taking a customers order and two little children run in (they were about 4yrs old and 7yrs old) screaming "CALL 911", both were freaking out and crying. I looked outside the front windows and there was a man on the pavement all bloody. So I hollered towards the cooks to call 911. So here is what happened. The childrens dad was in the turning lane, trying to make a left hand turn into our parking lot and as he made the turn a motorcycle came screaming down the road at a high speed and hit his van. The motorcyle hit the front passenger side of the van and the bike became lodged under it, the biker slammed into the passenger windshield (huge hole in the window) then flew about twenty feet and landed on his stomach on the pavement!! It was awful!! The blood was gushing from his head, the kids kept looking out the window screaming that he was dead, the dad kept running outside then inside to check on the kids, very distraught! A couple of customers finally took the kids into the dining area and calmed them down and bought them some food. They cordoned off the entire front of the parking lot to do the investigation, one officer told me and my manager that it may be fatal. The dad came into the office, as I was leaving, to use the phone and his little boy walked up to me and kept saying "I'm scared", I'm scared", "there is a guy with blood all over him"...My heart just sank, the poor child!! The children are going to have such nightmares!!!
That is not the first accident to happen in front of my building. About six or seven years ago there was a high speed chase involving a young college student. He hit the curb across the street from our store, his car became airborn and it hit our marquee, which broke and bent the pole. The car tore apart, part of it hit our building, breaking the glass in one window and putting a hole in the wall. The driver was killed instantly, he landed in the parking lot with body parts missing. The freakest thing (if that was not enough) was the shift manager on duty was in the dining room wiping some tables off and was standing directly in front of the window that was hit, luckily our windows have that filmy stuff on it so it won't come apart. She was traumatized for awhile after that.
So as I was typing this I glanced at the calendar and suddenly got chills down my spine. Why? You may ask, because today is Saturday the 21st, it is our curse!! Seriously, the evening that the college student was killed was Saturday the 21st, one month prior, Saturday the 21st, we had a huge wind storm and a huge cottonwood tree behind our building split in half. This caused the tree to pull all the wires completely out of our building (they actually tore out of the breaker boxes located in the office) and split two power poles in half, one across the street and one behind the building. It was a mess!! We had to close for two days. Then a few months later, on Saturday the 12th (I call it the Saturday curse that has a 1 and a 2 in the date) a truck was driving down the road in front of our store and his tire came off, it flew through the air and hit the vailance in front of the drive thru, which smashed that up and barely missed a suburban sitting at the window. That same evening some kids tried to tear the paper towel dispenser off the men's room wall so it was hanging by one screw. So I go inthere and use our set of keys to unlock the dispenser so I can take it off the wall. After we were closed I was looking for the keys to lock the front doors and I could not find them!! I left the store keys in the men's room and someone stole them!!!! I had to call my manager (different one than the one we have now) at 12:30 a.m. to come in and lock the store up!! He actually laughed about it because he knew it was our curse!! The following Monday he had the locks changed and gave me my own personal set of keys, in case it ever happened again (his words).
This is ever so freaky!!!!
That is not the first accident to happen in front of my building. About six or seven years ago there was a high speed chase involving a young college student. He hit the curb across the street from our store, his car became airborn and it hit our marquee, which broke and bent the pole. The car tore apart, part of it hit our building, breaking the glass in one window and putting a hole in the wall. The driver was killed instantly, he landed in the parking lot with body parts missing. The freakest thing (if that was not enough) was the shift manager on duty was in the dining room wiping some tables off and was standing directly in front of the window that was hit, luckily our windows have that filmy stuff on it so it won't come apart. She was traumatized for awhile after that.
So as I was typing this I glanced at the calendar and suddenly got chills down my spine. Why? You may ask, because today is Saturday the 21st, it is our curse!! Seriously, the evening that the college student was killed was Saturday the 21st, one month prior, Saturday the 21st, we had a huge wind storm and a huge cottonwood tree behind our building split in half. This caused the tree to pull all the wires completely out of our building (they actually tore out of the breaker boxes located in the office) and split two power poles in half, one across the street and one behind the building. It was a mess!! We had to close for two days. Then a few months later, on Saturday the 12th (I call it the Saturday curse that has a 1 and a 2 in the date) a truck was driving down the road in front of our store and his tire came off, it flew through the air and hit the vailance in front of the drive thru, which smashed that up and barely missed a suburban sitting at the window. That same evening some kids tried to tear the paper towel dispenser off the men's room wall so it was hanging by one screw. So I go inthere and use our set of keys to unlock the dispenser so I can take it off the wall. After we were closed I was looking for the keys to lock the front doors and I could not find them!! I left the store keys in the men's room and someone stole them!!!! I had to call my manager (different one than the one we have now) at 12:30 a.m. to come in and lock the store up!! He actually laughed about it because he knew it was our curse!! The following Monday he had the locks changed and gave me my own personal set of keys, in case it ever happened again (his words).
This is ever so freaky!!!!
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