Thursday, February 08, 2007

did i do the right thing?

so this evening a woman comes into the store impaired. i don't know what's wrong i know she is horrible impaired. i'm thinking sick, really really drunk, high, someone slipped her something etc. she goes out to the car because she has forgotten her card. she returns gets some more items and is in the next lane. i tell her that i've got her stuff and so we add those items that she has she then searches for her card. can't find out goes back out to the car. returns again. grads more chips and dip. goes to look for card and can't find it. goes back out to car. during all this i have started discussing what is going on and possible causes. come up with what i said earlier. i then say should we tell the officer who is "on-duty" really off-duty but is there to "protect" us. i finally decide to tell the sacker to tell the officer. i should say that i don't care for the officer who was with us this evening. he is a Sergeant. does not deserves to be one but none the less he is one. so we tell him what's going on and then proceeds to go out and see what's going on. i don't know what happened out side. i do know that there was a kid in the car. the officer brought them inside and had them wait for rides. i assume that her mother came. or was an older woman who look of relation to the first woman. the second woman took the little boy with her. and two men came to get the first woman. she didn't like giving up her child or i assume he was her child, to the second woman. and didn't really want to go with the two men. i don't know what was said. her voice was mostly gone. i am pretty sure that the little boy will be alright. for the second woman had a aire of it will be alright in the morning. and we jsut have to get through right now it will be rough i lie to you. but in the morning it will be easier. i wish i could say the same for the first woman. was i right? i didn't want her to fall done and pass out and freeze to death, i didn't really want her driving. for me it was she is a human being. she at least needs something. i didn't know what. for i didn't know what was wrong. i do know she told the officer at first a differnt story. and then another one. and finally i guess some form of the truth. it just makes me feel horrible knowing that i told the officer and he did what he did. i think it was the wrong decison but i don't know if she just needed a room for the night, or what. but i don't know. it just makes me feel horrible knowing and or seeing what happened. i am sorry for what did happen. i wish i could have done more. or knew more. i just don't know if it was right.

1 Comments:

At 9:41 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd say you did the best that you can do. I had stuff like that happen there, too, and I wish I *had* said something. You didn't know there was a child involved. Obviously it was best for him to be removed from that situation. I'd definitely say you did the right thing.

 

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