Earl Grey, the new wake up call...

Open my eyes... 4:55 am... s#*t! it's late!! i had to catch my work-bus right at that time!! There's no more buses until six in the morning and at that time i have to be already standing in the restaurant... i ran to the bus stop but it was a minute to late... it was still night, i sat on the sidewalk praying for a bus that will not pass by... a sub was parked a few feet away and after a minute or two a young man goes out of it, he approached to me and asked if he could keep me company while i wait. Truly, i was scared but he looked decent and i was more worried about my delay than anything else... so i said yes... everytime a stranger asks for my name i say Natalie, and so i did. We started talking... but i was curious, he never offered to drive me to my work, i mean, any other man at 5:45 in the morning would, but he didn't he was just talking about this bar he owned near by that was the reason he was parked there... i was so desperate to get to work that i asked him to take me, but he said he was to tired and offered to pay for a taxi to drive me there! I didn't knew what to say, i mean a taxi will charge 50 dollars... it's a lot for a girl you just meet who couldn't catch her bus, but i really, really was desperate so i agreed... i know! I should say no and i think God knew about it so... suddenly... a bus! It wasn't my work-bus but it was a bus that approaches me to my work... I thanked him and left... on the bus i was falling sleep! of course i haven't slept more than 3 hours i was exhausted and late! I arrived 6:30am to the restaurant, grateful that my manager wasn't there yet, but i hardly could stay awake and i knew a coffee was not the solution, i mean is pleasant but it has no effect on me since my mother gave me one cup every morning since i was eight... A cup of tea! A cup of earl grey tea with a splash of milk! Delightful, pleasant and awakening! I'm sayig a cup of earl grey tea with a splash of milk is the new wake up call... well, it didn't wake me at 4:15am, or keep me from getting late, but it did keep me awake for the rest of my shift :)