For Doreen

Today I was reading the obituaries and found out that a lady I used to work with passed on June 15th. It was very sad because she was a woman who was full of life and always an experience to be around. Sometimes she was a pain in the ass but you could always get a laugh when she was around even if it was at her expense. I hadn't kept in touch with Doreen since she retired a few years back but she was always in my heart, I will miss knowing she is somewhere on this earth. Doreen worked at the Credit Union when I first started in 1984, I was the kid and she was the more experienced teller who worked beside me. She hated doing anything that didn't involve just simple transactions, so whenever she would get anything that involved more than 30 seconds of work or actually thinking how to do it she would transfer them over to me. She always had a way of doing it that the customers never knew she was passing them off..."She will help you over here dear", always with a dear here or a dear there...Many people knew of her passing off game so they would avoid her, then I arrived, the green student who she could get to do all her dirty work. Every wicket I would move to there would be Doreen on one side or the other and me never the wiser to it. She was an old fashioned lady who never really clued into stuff, or if she did she was a wise old fox who fooled us all. Almost everyday at about 4:45, 15 minutes before closing Doreen would saunter off to the bathroom for about 10 minutes, she would come out just in time to close down and go home. It would drive some of the tellers crazy, but most of the time I just laughed at her. There was a couple times that she would come out of the bathroom with her skirt tucked into her panty hose, and once or twice she would miss sitting down on her stool and land on the floor. I remember once we were on the ferry coming back from a shopping trip and she was so busy chatting that she swallowed the wrong way and started choking, I got up behind her and administers the heimlich and out popped a piece of food and her false teeth. She was so embarrassed, it wasn't the choking so much as it was her teeth flying out onto the lady's food tray across the table. Doreen loved her family and retired to help take care of her new grandchildren and make sure her husband who was soon going to retire was happy and healthy. She also loved gardening, she would spend all her weekends out in her yard, she took such pride in it. She always was quick with advice for this kid that she had thought she moulded and I wish she was here to see how well I had raised my little girl. I am so sorry that you never got to grow old with Alex and you will be so missed but Heaven will be that much prettier now with you up there taking care of the garden's....I love ya Do and thanks for the memories