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"After news of the incident spread across automotive media this weekend, Gilles posted video from the scene on Instagram and took to Twitter to thank his well-wishers, adding that first responders are the “true daily heroes.”"
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"All of the things I've accomplished have derived from the opportunities the U.S. has afforded me," Maker said, according to the release. "When I first came to America, I didn't have hardly anything, but with the support and opportunity this country has given me, I've been able to completely change my life."
"Joining the greatest Air Force in the world has been an absolute miracle," said Maker. "I can't wait to see what this next chapter holds for me."
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"For seven months, single dad Trenton Lewis walked 11 miles every morning for 2 to 3 hours to begin his 4 a.m. shift working at a UPS facility in Little Rock, Arkansas."
"His co-workers, Patricia and Kenneth Bryant, collected donations so they could buy him a used $2,000 Saturn car"
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"over 100 volunteers gathered from many parts of the city to shovel the snow from all the streets."
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"We returned home from the fall nationals in Marengo, Ohio with lots of hardware. 2nd place trap team, 1st place sporting clays team, tie for 3rd place team in skeet, and HOA runner up in division 2 (only 2 targets behind the 1st place team). Individual honors included Riley Ross winning HOA male (yes, as a freshman!) and 2nd place in sporting clays; Cody Escritt winning HOA 2nd place male and 3rd place in sporting clays; and Heather Gordon winning 3rd place in ladies trap."
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Any who, middle of the day this little old lady comes up. She’s lovably kooky. She effuses how much she loves the store and how she wishes she could spend more time in it but her husband is waiting in the car ‘OH! I BETTER BUY HIM SOME CHOCOLATE!’
She piles a bunch of art supplies on the counter and then stops and tells me how my bangs are beautiful and remind her of the ocean (‘Wooooosh’ she says, making a wave gesture with her hand.
Ok. I think to myself. Awesomely happy, weird little old ladies are my favorite kind of customer. They’re thrilled about everything and they’re comfortably bananas. I can have a good time with this one. So we chat and it’s nice.
Then this kid, who’s been up my counter a few times to gather his school textbooks, comes up in line behind her (we’re connected to a major university in the city so we have a lot of harried students pass through).
She turns around to him and, out of nowhere, demands that he put his textbooks on the counter. He’s confused but she explains that she’s going to buy his textbooks.
He goes sheetrock white. He refuses and adamantly insists that she can’t do that. It’s like, $400 worth of textbooks. She, this tiny old woman, boldly takes them out of his hands, throws them on the counter and turns to me with an intense stare and tells me to put them on her bill. The kid at this point is practically in tears.
He’s confused and shocked and grateful. Then she turns to him and says ‘you need chocolate.’ She starts grabbing handfuls of chocolates and putting them in her pile.
He keeps asking her ‘why are you doing this?’ She responds ‘Do you like Harry Potter?’ and throws a copy of the new Cursed Child on the pile too.
Finally she’s done and I ring her up for a crazy amount of money. She pays and asks me to please give the kid a few bags for his stuff.
While I’m bagging up her merchandise the kid hugs her. We’re both telling her how amazing she is and what an awesome thing she’s done. She turns to both of us and says probably one of the most profound, unscripted things I’ve ever had someone say:
‘It’s important to be kind. You can’t know all the times that you’ve hurt people in tiny, significant ways. It’s easy to be cruel without meaning to be. There’s nothing you can do about that. But you can choose to be kind. Be kind.’
The kid thanks her again and leaves. I tell her again how awesome she is. She’s staring out the door after him and says to me: ‘My son is a homeless meth addict. I don’t know what I did. I see that boy and I see the man my son could have been if someone had chosen to be kind to him at just the right time.’
I’ve bagged up all her stuff and at this point am super awkward and feel like I should say something but I don’t know what. Then she turns to me and says: ‘I wish I could have bangs like that but my darn hair is just too curly.’ And leaves.
And that is the story of the best customer I’ve ever had. Be kind to somebody today.
You never know how your actions may effect others around you, so you might as well be kind to all.