Jaden (if you've seen the show) what's your favorite episode of The Twilight Zone and why?
“I have seen it. Oddly enough it was something that my grandfather on my mother’s side loved to watch.” She said, hands counting out the drawer on the furthest side of her line while the customer waited for their order. It was moments like this where she enjoyed her life the way it was.
Building relationships with patrons helped foster a sort of welcoming space. A place where regulars could come and have that easy sort of banter often not found in the city. A moment of pause to gather themselves before heading back out into the world. Questions like these told her that the people wanted to get to know her more than just a ‘Thanks for the coffee.’ sort of way.
“I think my favourite episode is “One for the Angels” in which Lew Bookman, a sidewalk salesman ends up stalling Death itself to spare a child’s life. Even if in the end he has to give up his own.” She pulled the starting cash and moved it to a bank bag that locked. Sealing it away to be put into the back staff room for when it was needed again. “It always leaves me feeling like there is still some hope for Humanity to do one act of kindness and a good deed for someone else.
She turned to look at the customer, a small soft smile on her face. It was the sort of thing that Beth was always on about. And while Jay may have teased the older woman, she wished, in the softer sheltered places of her thoughts and heat that her friend was right in the end.
“For as much as I may be bitter and hardened to the world as a whole, to know that that type of faith is out there makes me think not all is lost.” She put the register drawer back where she got it from. Grabbed her own cup of coffee and took a sip before continuing on. “You never know what someone is going through in life when you meet them. One kind word, one smile could mean the difference between that person living to see another day or fading away, lost and alone. Paying forward that kind act could make the world a better place if people tried.”
She took the offered cup from her barista, a pen followed from her apron pocket. With the cap pulled off with her teeth, she set to writing a small little note to be read later or not.
“Lew Bookman was a story about sacrifice and redemption. Elements that all of us seek and go through at some point in our lives. If in the end, they make someone else’s life better, well then it was a good deed after all.” She put the pen away and slid the cup to the waiting customer. “Have a good day, and we hope to see you again.”
On the cup in slanted, but still legible and elegant handwriting was a single sentence.
“Every step forward, no matter how small, is still progress towards your goal.”
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