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- Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
- Theme: Drama / Human Interest
- Subject: Survival / Healing / Renewal
- Published: 04/10/2018
In 1986 Shane and I owned a lunch bar/cafe. It was just a small business that only required him and I to work it. No need for any other staff.
The income from it was just enough for our family of six to get by and it was only 100 metres from home so we were always there for our kids.
We had our regulars, some very interesting people and some very different. They came from all walks of life.
One couple stood out from the rest.
A young couple who would come in every morning to buy breakfast and their morning coffee. I believe they had both come from well to do families but had been thrown out of their family homes due to their choice of life style.
I would feel sorry for them and give them extra or cheaper food as I knew they were doing it hard. She was a hard worker and worked as a machinist in a factory close by.
They would come back again in the afternoon to see if we had left overs. Shane would always make sure there was something left for them.
They lived in a car down at our local beach. They had been coming in for quite some time when she got pregnant. I used to think to myself, what ever will become of that little baby.
By the time they had the baby they had moved out of the car and had moved into a house. No doubt with help from family. Or maybe social services.
They had a son.
Both of them had drug issues, I think him more than her. Their issues got worse and the word was he had become a dealer.
After our kids grew up and we moved on and we saw them again, they were living just around the corner from us in a rental property.
I avoided them and didn't want them to know we lived a few streets from them as I had been told they were in and out of the courts along with their son. Not that they would have recognised us anyway. They both looked awful and I could not believe how much they had aged.
The house they rented was being used to cook drugs. Their son was now a young adult. His car, always parked in their driveway, had the back window blown out one night when he had been cooking in it.
Both father and son were going down hill.
The police were always at their place and they would scream and yell all the time at each other.
She would throw his clothes into the middle of the road and let cars run over them.
One day I saw the police raiding their house and he was driving by with a boat on the back. He parked up the road and just watched them looking for him. They eventually found him.
The short of it was they were on a fast train to death or prison. All three of them. How sad for their son. He knew no other life other than his drunken, druggie parents.
Both father and son went to prison eventually. I don't know what for but it was probably drug related.
Six years has passed since I had seen them.
Today was a great day. I saw the girl Lisa in Kmart. Dressed smartly in a Salvation Army uniform. Her blonde hair clean and shiney, Done to perfection.
She looked at me, gave a wave, and had a huge smile on her face. She Looks like a completely different person.
I thought Wow. What a wonderful day.
I hope her husband and son have been saved too.
Saved(Gail Moore)
In 1986 Shane and I owned a lunch bar/cafe. It was just a small business that only required him and I to work it. No need for any other staff.
The income from it was just enough for our family of six to get by and it was only 100 metres from home so we were always there for our kids.
We had our regulars, some very interesting people and some very different. They came from all walks of life.
One couple stood out from the rest.
A young couple who would come in every morning to buy breakfast and their morning coffee. I believe they had both come from well to do families but had been thrown out of their family homes due to their choice of life style.
I would feel sorry for them and give them extra or cheaper food as I knew they were doing it hard. She was a hard worker and worked as a machinist in a factory close by.
They would come back again in the afternoon to see if we had left overs. Shane would always make sure there was something left for them.
They lived in a car down at our local beach. They had been coming in for quite some time when she got pregnant. I used to think to myself, what ever will become of that little baby.
By the time they had the baby they had moved out of the car and had moved into a house. No doubt with help from family. Or maybe social services.
They had a son.
Both of them had drug issues, I think him more than her. Their issues got worse and the word was he had become a dealer.
After our kids grew up and we moved on and we saw them again, they were living just around the corner from us in a rental property.
I avoided them and didn't want them to know we lived a few streets from them as I had been told they were in and out of the courts along with their son. Not that they would have recognised us anyway. They both looked awful and I could not believe how much they had aged.
The house they rented was being used to cook drugs. Their son was now a young adult. His car, always parked in their driveway, had the back window blown out one night when he had been cooking in it.
Both father and son were going down hill.
The police were always at their place and they would scream and yell all the time at each other.
She would throw his clothes into the middle of the road and let cars run over them.
One day I saw the police raiding their house and he was driving by with a boat on the back. He parked up the road and just watched them looking for him. They eventually found him.
The short of it was they were on a fast train to death or prison. All three of them. How sad for their son. He knew no other life other than his drunken, druggie parents.
Both father and son went to prison eventually. I don't know what for but it was probably drug related.
Six years has passed since I had seen them.
Today was a great day. I saw the girl Lisa in Kmart. Dressed smartly in a Salvation Army uniform. Her blonde hair clean and shiney, Done to perfection.
She looked at me, gave a wave, and had a huge smile on her face. She Looks like a completely different person.
I thought Wow. What a wonderful day.
I hope her husband and son have been saved too.
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Lillian Kazmierczak
08/18/2022I love a good story of self-redemption. Sometimes bottom is further down for some, glad she found hers and pulled herself up!
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JD
05/04/2018I hope the rest of her family was SAVED too! Thanks for sharing your story, and congratulations on being selected as one of the Story Stars's of the Week! :-)
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Gail Moore
05/05/2018Thanks so much.
I hope they have been saved too. If I ever find out I shall write part 2.
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