Her day started off so good and then it took a very dramatic turn for the worst.
When I talked to her in the morning things were wonderful!
The coffee shop relocation was coming along nicely. They were drawing up paperwork for a main street location for a thousand dollars a month (almost unheard of downtown plus it's $1,700 less than what we are paying now).
There was no drama at home (which is a little unusual for her).
And she was getting over her breakup with Juan. She had been talking to this guy online for about a year and they finally decided to meet on Tuesday night.
Mandy was nervous and only wanted to meet him for five minutes, so they decided to meet in the Walmart parking lot over by the liquor store (crazy thing about my town, we have to sell alcohol in it's own establishments, so we are talking the back lot of Walmart) at night.
When she was telling Mona and I this story we made fun of her so much! Who meets a guy they met online, at Walmart, at night? That's safe and so not ghetto at all!
Anyways, they did hit it off and she really likes him. She said they had this big movie moment kiss where he grabbed her face and pulled her in and just kissed her. She said if she hadn't been standing next to her car she might of fallen backwards it was so good.
They liked each other so much they even made plans to go out again last night.
So you could say she was in a pretty good mood yesterday morning.
Then we fast-forward to when I went into work that night.
She got an email from the property manager saying they "miscalculated" the amount of space in the building and the rent would be going up an extra $500.
When she had gone home to see her son, he pulled her into his bedroom and closed the door and started sobbing uncontrollably.
He told her his missed his grandpa (her dad who passed away a few months ago) and didn't know what to do.
When she got back to work she asked me "how do you help someone with something when you're not even okay with it?" I told her "No thank you have a nice day?" and walked away. (when faced with difficult situations, where I have no idea what to do or say, I try humor to make people feel better...I got her to smile, so mission accomplished).
And the the final blow...the guy stopped responding to all of her messages.Not a word from him after making the plans to go out again. She sat waiting all night, ready to go out with him, and the jerk never answered her back. Just left her without a word.
She ended up sitting with Juan at the restaurant all night.
At the end of the night I gave her a hug and told her everything was going to be okay, but my heart was breaking for how her good day turned out so very bad and so very heartbreaking.
