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'THANK YOU FOR THE GATORADE...'

Martha Puente Castro has been working outside through recent hot days and she wants to say 'thank you' to a couple who stopped her truck and gave her an eight-pack of Gatorade. Thanks for sharing your story Martha!

Shared with Banning-Beaumont Patch by Martha Puente Castro:

I've been wanting to write this post since yesterday, but I've been very busy working.. 

I work in the field here in Beaumont. I'm on call this week, so I needed to work this weekend.

The hottest days we have had. When we go on call, we start from Monday - Thursday Friday off work weekends till the following Wednesday.

Yesterday, on Monday 7-1-13 I was on Vaile Ave. (a small starting to enter the 10 fwy) I heard a honk, I thought I made someone mad and they wanted to complain about our service.

Or that he wanted me to hurry and enter the freeway. I could not enter due to too many cars entering the 10/60 freeway, I thought to my self oh boy this man is going to have to wait.

He kept honking. I looked at my side rear mirror and I decided to get out.

It was a Hispanic couple in a light brown 2 door car, trying to pull me over to give me an 8 pack of GATORADE. It's been so hot out there that I never thought others think of us field people suffering with this horrible heat.

I don't know how thank them, this gesture from a stranger kept me thinking about them all day, I don't think I will never forget them at that location.

THANK YOU GOD FOR SENDING THEM TO ME ;)

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