Personal Narrative: A Hardworking Immigrant

A Hardworking Immigrant Before Ruth Day retired at the age of 75, she was a cashier at a food supermarket called Casey Jones for merely 25 years. Unlike most cashiers, Ruth was a short elderly woman with square-rimmed glasses, aging skin, and grey, curly hair. She knew how to make her workplace seem like a big family. Every customer who walked in the store knew Mrs. Ruth. Once they finished walking the aisles shopping, they instantly looked for register six, where she normally worked, to check out their grocery items. Over the years, making conversations became easier as she would greet them and say, “Hello, how is your day?” and they replied, “Good morning, how are you Ruth?” She knew how to make people cheer up for the short amount of time she had with them while checking out the items. One day, a shy customer checked out at Ruth’s register and they started talking about the warm weather. The customer felt loved and started to talk about her family. Not only was she friendly with her customers but also to her coworkers. She was especially close with her bag boys, who always helped her with the groceries. While they worked, she told them stories to pass time. One time she shocked and intrigued her bag boy by telling the …show more content…
Ruth stared out the window as she watched her homeland move behind her in the distance. After six months, they arrived near the border by Laredo, Texas. Crossing the border was one of the hardest parts. Before they were given the clearance to cross, they were checked for diseases. Unware of what was happening, Ruth was tested for any illnesses. One of her siblings had a minor head cold, and the border men were skeptical to let her cross until she was proven to not be majorly ill. When Ruth was allowed to enter the United States, her two uncles picked her family up and drove them to Algiers, Louisiana. Not long after, they moved to Gretna, Louisiana, where much of her childhood was