People Are Awesome!

I have been putting this off long enough; over a month procrastinating of updating yall. This last little while I have had a lot on my mind. I can't seem to get off everything that has been going on. I work 40+ hours a week, I'm enrolled into summer classes, I'm looking into making my first automotive purchase *by myself* and it just feels like everything is falling into place. Granted there are days when I just want to fall down and never get back up, but lately it has been so much easier to stand when I think I can't. It scares me to say this but, I think I've finally grown up. Responsibilities make it a whole lot easier to do that too.
Having to go to work at 1230 pm each night is rough but I manage to flop out of bed and go. I guess you can say I love my job haha. The location of where I work is not a very nice neighborhood. Everyone I talk to asks if I'm scared, at first I was but now I just love it! I get to see so many different types of people, and I love people watching. I wish I could share all the stories I have so far but I want to share just one this time.
A few nights ago I was training the new weekend graveyard person. They shadowed me around all night and what not. But I guess they didn't expect to witness one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. It had gotten a little busy and with a line that was built up, I and Charity, the trainee, were trying to get through the long line as fast as we could. This woman comes in and like I always do, I greet her at the door with a "hello, how's it going?" She said she was fine and wanted to know if we charged for ice water. I told her no and she went back to the soda fountain. She walked out and I bid her a farewell, moments later she comes in crying just sobbing. I try to talk to her as I am helping another woman in line, asking her if there is something I can do and how I could possibly help. She tells me shes out of gas, her boyfriend-that was just in the store- ditched her and shes not from Utah and has no where to go. She proceeds to sob out, "is it ok if I sleep in my Jeep in your parking lot? Ill be gone by the morning." I tell her yeah, and to just hold up for a second." She walks outside crying. I told Charity to finish the line and I'd be back. I and another gentleman pushed the stranded woman's car to the pump where I walked inside slid my card and put $10 out there. Its funny cause I could have sworn I had no $ in my bank and was trying to make it another day to payday. It processed and the woman came in thanking me over and over. It really isn't that big of deal. I just didn't want her sleeping in a cold car, it was freezing outside...it was supposed to rain all night. She told me she was gonna sleep in HomeDepot's parking lot so she could be there when they opened up in the morning so she could return some things and get a little of money and try to make it back to where she was from. She left and Charity leaned over and said, "shes not gonna forget your name or face." Then immediately the woman who I was assisting in line, when the crying woman came in, handed me a bunch of change and asked if I could exchange it for bills. She had about $6 worth, told me she was between jobs and knows what its like to struggle and have to ask for help. She drove off and came back later to tell me that an older couple put her in a hotel for the night.
After the woman left a gentleman said, "wow you women are so niave. She probably just got $10 in gas from you, a free hotel room, and money from another. She got you." I ignored his comments and said have a nice night. I personally felt sincerity in this woman's cries for help. I also had a little prompting telling me to just do it. Blows my mind how rude people can be. But I understand that people do scam others into doing those things. But you know what, I hope she made it to wherever she was going. I just know that people are awesome and when you feel that something is right do it!