I needed some extra cash so I got a job as a delivery man on the weekends so Ibcan still study.
I was doing a job one day, it was a package to this guy who lived in a huge apartment building. He was on floor 16 and i went up the elevator. I knocked on his door.
"Hello?" A guy asked opening the door.
"Package for you?" I asked.
"Oh ok thanks" said the guy taking his packages.
"Have a nice day" I said because I was trained to be nice.
"Yeah you too" he said.
Just as i was leaving I saw a note on his neighbours door.
It read:
I an very elderly and my legs wont work properly. Need help taking rubbish down.
I am nice :) so I knocked on the guys door. A man answered who was easily 70-80 years old.
"I saw your Note" I explained.
"Thank you. Could you take this down for me?" He asked.
"Of course" I said.
He handed me a brown box tightly taped shut.
"You know" he said "Being old isn't really worth it, I'm better off dead"
"Oh I'm sorry" I said looking awkward.
I made for the elevator. I got in and the door closed behind me. Suddenly the box flew upwards and hit the roof. I jumped back against the wall, pressed the button to go back up and feared for the worst. While I was waiting I got the box down and looked inside. All that was there was a cinder block with a metal wire around it, so thin that I hadn't noticed it before.
When I got up there I wish I had prepared myself for what i saw.
In the hallway was the man
There laying on the floor was the old mans body in a pool of blood. He had wrapped the other end of the wire around his neck. His head lay a few feet away from his body.
Old people can be suicidal as well.
