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crowd gathered and it was hard to push through to the
place where he’d fallen. Someone checked his pulse and his
heart, but he was dead. Soon an ambulance came, the
police, they started questioning people and asking about
witnesses. But it wasn’t by accident that it had happened at
lunchtime, if you ask me.
I didn’t see her again that day. And him, he left that same
evening. For the next few days she didn’t work in the
cafeteria. One of the cooks took her place. They said she’d
taken some sick days, but she’d be back soon. And she did
come back. Only, you wouldn’t have recognized her. She
took soup to the men from the foreign contract and right
away she asked them when he was coming back. They
didn’t say anything. She brought them their main course
and asked again when he would be coming back. Then,
when they still said nothing, she made such a scene that
they got up and left. She was crying and shouting that
they’d come to get their meal and they’d left him to do all
the work. He’d get exhausted working so much. As it was
he didn’t look well. He was pale, he’d lost weight. The next
day she was fired.
After that, from time to time she’d come to the cafeteria,
stand by the hatch and say to the cooks that she just
wanted to serve him his meal when he came. And the
cooks, like you’d expect with cooks, they’d say to her, Come
in to the kitchen, sit yourself down, we’ll tell you when he
comes and you can serve him, we can see the door from