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Post by HighCotton on Oct 30, 2019 12:26:26 GMT -5
As I post this, I am sitting in a little Mexican restaurant where I just had a good lunch as I’m on the road, heading home from Missouri.
I just asked for my bill so I could go up to the register and pay when the waitress informed me that my lunch has been paid for. I’m sitting here looking a little perplexed and asked her who paid. She simply said the manager at the register said somebody paid for my lunch as they were leaving!
She said she had no idea who paid, but my lunch has been covered. Now, I’ve done this before, paying for someone anonymously. However, I’ve never been the recipient and it’s kind of an awkward feeling.
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Post by Pinoc on Oct 30, 2019 12:31:55 GMT -5
I used to have a hard time receiving anything from someone until I realized I was robbing them of their blessing by not accepting it.
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 30, 2019 12:39:48 GMT -5
It was probably the guy that bumped into your car in the parking lot.
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Post by deadeer on Oct 30, 2019 12:51:19 GMT -5
I have had that happen in the drive thru and at a restaurant also. I agree, it is weird accepting a generous gift not knowing from who it came from. Smile and go on.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2019 13:29:33 GMT -5
Be humbled and pass it on the next person. Maybe that person needs it more than you.
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Post by scrub-buster on Oct 30, 2019 14:39:02 GMT -5
Good karma for you and whoever bought your lunch. I've had that happen once in a drive thru when the woman in front of me cut me off pulling into the restaurant. I gave her my death stare but only at 60% strength. That must have been enough for her to buy my dinner.
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Post by featherduster on Oct 30, 2019 15:45:30 GMT -5
If any of you want to feel blessed and pass on this good karma the wife and I will be eating at the Hacienda restaurant on Friday evening.
God bless you and thank you in advance, BTW add a few bucks for the tip.
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Post by jbird on Oct 30, 2019 16:01:40 GMT -5
I simply try to pass the good will along.....I especially like supporting military and our public servants. They put themselves in harms way for others and that is something special....
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Post by HighCotton on Oct 31, 2019 11:57:54 GMT -5
If any of you want to feel blessed and pass on this good karma the wife and I will be eating at the Hacienda restaurant on Friday evening. God bless you and thank you in advance, BTW add a few bucks for the tip. Is that the Hacienda in Michigan City? The former Tinker’s Dam? Great place! |
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Post by featherduster on Oct 31, 2019 12:37:03 GMT -5
YES, still a great place to eat and drink.
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Post by mgderf on Oct 31, 2019 18:23:42 GMT -5
Circa September,1977, Chicago O'Hare airport.
I had just graduated boot camp in San Diego, and was on my way home to Indiana with a stop in the Windy City.
We landed with a scheduled 45 minute layover for the connecting flight.
When we landed it was storming, and I don't mean slightly.
Ten minutes after we landed an announcement came over the intercom stating the airport was now closed until the storm passed.
Great, there were 9 of us in uniform, wondering what to do now, so we found a bar in the airport.
I think it was called the 52nd parallel, or something similar.
In walked all 9 of us and all but filled the barstools available.
We all ordered beers. The bartender said he would run a tab.
We had 6 or 8 beers apiece, I can't recall, I was pretty buzzed by then. LOL
When the announcement came that flights were resuming we asked the bartender for the bill.
He told us that the guy in the cashmere sweater that had just left had picked up the tab for all of us!
He never said a word to any of us, and we never got a chance to thank him.
I remember seeing him sitting there, but really didn't pay any more attention than that.
I've never forgotten that afternoon, and I've passed on the favor a few times myself, although I've never bought 72 beers at a time!
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Post by esshup on Oct 31, 2019 23:07:04 GMT -5
HC, good thing you left when you did, when I came thru there this afternoon there was this white stuff all over the ground.
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Post by HighCotton on Nov 1, 2019 6:12:47 GMT -5
HC, good thing you left when you did, when I came thru there this afternoon there was this white stuff all over the ground. Haha! I got a text from one of my customers telling me the same thing! |
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