The Curse

I never heard of this before I started working at my current employers, but this past winter after a former co-workers horrific death I heard people start mentioning "the curse". Five former employees died in the past year, well six now as of Monday (even though the 6th was a current employee). Their deaths are not the usual, oh the person was old or was in bad health kind of deaths, but the unexpected, you never saw it coming kind.

One of my co-workers passed away this week and his death is being investigated. An artery was cut in his leg and he bled to death in his house. I thought everyone at work would seem distraught and upset, but when I came into work the following day nothing seemed different except there was a new guy in the kitchen. It bothers me a bit that no one seemed to care that someone died. It also bother me because I knew him. Our last conversation centered around my legs. He noticed they were muscular and asked if I played soccer. Then we talked about the half marathon I would be running that weekend.

The supposed curse at my work had claimed a victim in December as well. A former employee, I didn't know, hit a fire hydrant in his car and the car flipped vertical and hurdled into a grove of trees behind the fire hydrant killing the driver (the former employee) and causing the passenger to fly out the back window, injured, but alive.

Another victim of the curse, a guy I knew, another former employee who worked the first summer I started, hung himself. I knew he was troubled, did a lot of drugs, and kind of scared me. My second summer there he would come back late at night when I was the last server on and most people had left the restaurant and follow me around and try to touch me. It's crazy to me to believe that all these people are connected and that these terrible things happen.