monkeypox

ok so tonight just as we were locking up a girl walkes into my bar. she is crying saying her boyfriend and all her friends ditched her. she explains she is not from seattle and she is lost. her boyfriend has her car keys and her id. she seems really scared and asks if she could use the phone. i say of course she could. she spends about a half an hour calling all the phone numbers she can remember - getting no response. i ask her where and how she got seperated from her friends. She says she doesnt remember the name of the club they were at, but her id was expired so the door guy wouldnt let her in. her friends didnt bother to wait to see if she got in or not so she stood around outside the club for awhile talking to the bouncers. Then her boyfriend came out looking for her but when he saw her "talking to another guy" he got mad at her and went back in. (some how he got her wallet when he went back in) now the club is closed and she has no idea where they are or where she parked. so i ask her how i can help. she doesnt know. so i say she could hang around the bar as i closed down, maybe her friends are looking for her and they would wander by. as i close the bar she stops crying, but i can sence that she is still very worried. my boss tries to assure her that she is safe and we will do what ever it is that we can to see that there is some resolution to at least the her immediate situation. I can see that she is becoming distrusting of me as my boss leaves and i start turning off lights. (i cant blame her she had no idea who i am) i could find no way to reassure her. it seemed if i were to try and address her distrust of me it would only make things more awkward. so i went about my business of counting out the tills and cleaning up. she was scared. scared she was ditched by her friends, scared she was lost in a city she didnt know, and scared of me
when i finished, i asked her how she wanted to handle the situation. she said she had no idea. i proposed first we look around the area for her friends who were most likly going to be looking for her. if we couldnt find them then we would look for her car. if that didnt work i would give her a ride home(she lived in everett). we walked around pioneer square for a while all sorts of drunk frat types were milling about making the comments that i have become used to and even expect. she talked about her boyfrind nerviously. going back and forth from being mad at him to being scared of him.. i mostly just let her talk cuz it seemed to make her feel better. we couldnt find her friends so we started looking for her car. All she could tell me was she parked "under the viaduct". i started to feel alittle uncomfortable as we wandered around the dark looking for her car. i started to feel bad because she was getting really nervoius. i couldnt blame her. finally i think she just got overwhelmed and she said i didnt have to keep looking with her. i made one attempt to say i would stay and help her but i didnt want to make her any more uncomfortable. i left her and walked back up to my car and drove home. im sure she can take care of her self, but i feel like crap. i hope she found her friends and her car and got home safely.