Reading Changed My Life - Townsend Press

Reading Changed My Life! Three True StoriesBut there was one fellow who just wouldn’t goaway. His name was Alfonso Cárdenas. Marianoticed he came through her checkout line againand again. He would drop into the store on anyexcuse, if only to buy a pack of gum. Other times hewould stop in after his martial-arts class for a bottleof water. Unlike the other men, he didn’t makeobnoxious comments to the girls. He seemed veryshy, only saying “hi” or “how are you today?”One evening, Maria was especially tired. It hadbeen a hard day, and she had to close up the supermarketat 11, meaning her day would be evenlonger than usual. “And along comes this guy,” shesays today, with a laugh. “He says, ‘Could I talk toyou after you get off?’ And I had no patience withthis. I said, ‘No you can’t! We have nothing to talkabout!’ Believe me, I was not nice.”But he came back again, still asking. “I told him‘No, no, no, no, I am not interested. I have notime. I’m too busy. I have a little girl. I don’t want20