Close Encounter


Ok here's another scintillating event in my life. I was working in a convenience store at the time of the story.. Most of the customers were nice and even those who weren't nice try to be nice with me as i let them go for few cents lol. Well I recall lots of good friends in that store and I was pretty much stuck in that place. Well i was a engineering student so it was not ideal for my talent and qualifications.(if I had any). Well some educated fools beat the dumbest one's in stupidity. Ya i am talking about myself lol. Well, I was working there because it was easy to get your hands on and there was no physical stress. Once i get stuck somewhere I am stuck for a while.

Well, I was handling the night shift and there was a white dude who used to come  in the late evening to help me with the storage and cleaning stuff. After a good day of retail business, I was about to close down the store. It was around 11'o clock in the night. I was standing near the cash register and the white dude was standing right next to me. All of a sudden, from nowhere a guy came in with a skimask in his head. The first thought that strike my head, was why was the guy wearing a bandana?. I try to reason it that he might be to prevent oneself from the cold weather. But as he came inside, he was poiniting a hand gun directly towards us. The guy was white, short and skinny.I was like what the pineapple is this guy trying to do. He was screaming "Gimme the money!!" "Gimme the money". He had even brought a small plastic bag along with him. I was amused, shocked, spellbounded, amazed, terrified, bewildered, petrified... you guys choose the  word. I cannot even explain my emotions at that particular moment. I raised my hands and was standing still like the statue of liberty. The white dude was asking the robber to calm down.Then the robber got more agitated and he cocked his gun and was in ready to shoot mode. Well, the earth slide right away from my feet after that. I opened the register and emptied all the money in the bag. The robber was not satisfied. He jumped across the counter and held the gun at my neck. Well now I was in a total state of shock. I was the hostess at a convenient store held at gunpoint. He asked me to take him to the safe and put the money in there. I complied with his orders as a little lamb in Mary's little lamb. After that the robber jumped out from the counter and dissapeared in the thin air. I called 911 after that and police investigations proceeded but they were not able to catch the culprit. They sure were able to identify the gun was real just to add up to myfear. They also give the recorded videos to the public television and local news channels. BUt still they couldnot catch him. So it is still a mystery as to who it was so close to taking away my precious life. After that i was not satisfied with my job psychologically. Every skinny short white dude especially the new ones send me chills through my body. I was paying more attention to the robberies happening in the locality. Well I still worked there for few months and finally i quit the job.

The another thing worth mentioning is the emotional recollection of the event with the cops. I lived like a prince in Nepal in my own way and was never even pushed by anyone. And here I was, my life depending on the mercy of a twisted anonymous guy. I wonder what if he had pulled the trigger. Well,  it was a real psychotic episode and I was over it within a month. I was also saddened by the deaths of nepalese in Texas working in convenient store. I wish their soul rest in peace and like to send heartly condolences to the effected families. Well lots of nepalese in united states work in the stores nowadays, I pray to pashupatinath that no further mishaps will occur in Nepalese community.

Well, guys here you have it all, a scary recollection of my life. By the way I saw a lot of people reading the section but i donot find any comments. I will appreciate any comments nice/criticizing ones and the stories of your own too.

PS: Well : while I was reading my stories, i find lots of grammatical mistakes like wrong tense,  sentence structure, I will try to correct it when I have time.

Ok guys peace out..

Yours sincerely,

coolcetrix