Man Pays For Elderly Lady’s Groceries– Next Day He Gets A Note That Left Him Holding Back The Tears

[Music] [Applause] [Music] this story is about a waiter from the US who got the tip of a lifetime one day in the summer of 2016 at first he wasn't sure why he deserved the $500 tip but after reading a message the customer had left behind he realized why he had been chosen the man in question is casey simmons a 33 year old man from Dallas Texas in the summer of 2016 he was working as a waiter at his local Applebee's restaurant but then one day the most remarkable thing happened to him while he was serving his story went totally viral and some local and even international newspapers reported on it the whole thing started when Simmons was having a normal day at work as far as we know nothing too spectacular happened until an unfamiliar woman walked into the restaurant Simmons served her but she ordered only a flavored water he hadn't thought anything of it until it was time for her to leave he handed her the bill which came to a whopping 37 cents and she reached for her purse to pay it at this point Simmons had no clue what was about to happen he probably expected to get a handful of coins from the customers but when he went back to her table it was a different story the woman was gone but Simmons couldn't believe what he found he picked up the bill and saw that she had left him a tip but it was not an ordinary tip in the u.s. it's typical to see tips of 15 to 20 percent but it is by no means usual to see a tip as large as the one Simmons got that day the woman only owed him 37 cents but her bill showed a figure much larger it was so generous that Simmons began to well up when he saw it the woman who was nowhere to be seen by this point had left the waiter five hundred dollars and 37 cents Simmons was stunned by the random act of kindness but in actual facts it wasn't so random at all looking closer he saw that the customer had left him a handwritten note on a napkin to and once he read what she had to say the pieces of the puzzle fell into place it turned out that the woman wanted to pay Simmons back for something kind that he had done only the day before he had gone to do some shopping at Kroger grocery store when he noticed an elderly woman who looked as though she were having a bad day instead of ignoring her Simmons decided to take some time out of his day and go and talk to her he ended up spending a while chatting with her and then he offered to pay for her groceries the woman obliged and Simmons picked up the bill Simmons had managed to make the upset looking woman smile then after he left the store that day Simmons probably forgot about the whole thing until he went to work at Applebee's the following day and received the huge tip from a mystery woman the note left behind by the customer revealed that she was in fact the daughter of the elderly woman that Simmons had helped out the previous day and she had decided to come and pay him back for his kind gesture in the grocery store her handwritten message to Simmons explained the profound impact that he had had on her mother who was indeed struggling that day as the waiter had suspected the note informed Simmons that the previous day was a very difficult anniversary for the elderly woman it was the third anniversary of her husband's death but she had gone out grocery shopping anyway of course she was feeling down that day but Simmons had noticed her and had done his best to turn her day around in any way that he could the daughter's known told simin that he had made her mom's gay by insisting to pay for her groceries he had also told her mom that she was a very beautiful woman and that had made her smile from ear to ear according to the daughter I have not seen this woman smile this much since dad died Simmons customer wrote on the napkin and that was the reason why the seemingly random woman turned up to the waiters workplace and gave him such a massive tip out of the blue Simmons was practically been hailed as a hero online spoke to CNN about the story in August 2016 he said that the older woman's grocery bill was only $17 but he insisted it wasn't about the money he said it's about showing someone you care which is exactly what he did people online have been showering the waiter with praises for his generous actions fantastic to see that there are still good generous humble sincere and caring people in our vicious world of today well done and thank you someone wrote on the sons online article from August 2016 another reader described it as a nice heartwarming story and plenty of others agreed then the same person came up with a great suggestion if everyone did one act of kindness a day the world would be a much better place Simmons himself may not have viewed his offer to pay for the woman's groceries as a big deal but he clearly made a huge difference in her difficult day it just goes to show that a kind gesture here and there no matter how little can do a lot of good to another person [Music]

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Length: 5min 27sec (327 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 01 2019