It was Friday and to make matters worse, it was the 13th. That afternoon, she was speeding to get to the Bank before it closed. She walked into bank, got in line with the many other lost souls who were waiting to withdraw the last piece of change they had in their accounts for the weekend.
  She was filling out a receipt when she noticed a man standing at the counter flirting with the Clerk. You could not help but to hear the conversation. His voice was so loud that you would not hear a train passing by. He was bragging about how he had taken his clients money, and how he had taken them for everything they had. He used the Phrase, " What stupid suckers they were." She just shook her head. She did not know what company he worked for, but a few popped into her mind.
  Her turn was slowly coming up. Still trying to fill out the slip in line, she noticed the line seemed to shift towards one side. She turned to see what was going on.
Not far from the end of the line stood a homeless woman. You could see that time took away the years, and her age was robbed from her soul along time ago. She had a lot of change in two plastic bags in her hands. She looked tired of this life and the bags seemed to weigh her down more then time had. But there she stood in this rat race of a line. She could feel the vibes from the other people shaking their heads and laughing on the inside at her.
Mr. Loud Mouth by this time had also turned around. He looked at the Clerk that he was flirting with and said;
" Honey ,"  if you would ever look like that, I would have to shoot you." He walked over to the homeless woman, gave her a dollar bill and said; "This is probably more then you have in those stupid bags." He turned away laughing as he walked out the Bank's door.
  There was such a silence in the Bank, that if you would have dropped a pin, the building would had fell down around us. It was that quiet. I could see the shame and hurt on her face. The homeless woman felt so low that if there were any ants around, they would have taking her by the hand, and took her down to their hole with them. Two young guys came into the Bank at the same time this all happened. They looked at her and said out loud, "Phew!" "Something stinks in here!"
   Her turn had came to go to the window, but she could not take it anymore. She told the Clerk to wait a minute. She walked over to the homeless woman and said; " May I?" She took one of her bags of money and placed it at the window and then took the homeless woman's hand and led her to the window. She told the Clerk; "I believe it's her turn. She could feel the sneers and looks on her back like a blanket, as she helped this woman. So she turned around and smiled at everyone in the line and went to the next window. But the frowns and faces just looked away.
   Thirteen dollars and fifty cents was the total of the bags. All of the coins were wrapped up neatly in coin rolls. The homeless woman took the money, folded it up and placed it in a torn pocket of one of the dresses she was wearing. She watched her slowly leave the Bank, rolling her shopping cart, she turned the corner and slipped away .