that's the question everybody's gonna be asking the next few days.....whadja git (for Christmas)?
i got a lady from united dairy farmers.
i got a lady from united dairy farmers who said she didn't have any family to buy for this year and so she was buying for everyone at united dairy farmers.
she sprang for my 3 coffees and 3 hot chocolates, she sprang for the teenager ahead of me in line who bought 6 liters of soda, she sprang for the person to her left and the person to her right. she sprang for the whole dang store!
you could tell by looking at her that she probably didn't have much money herself. she looked like she could have used someone to spring for her, but instead, she was playing santa claus to total strangers.
i told her thank you, of course. i told her thank you a million times - over and over - as did everybody else in line. but i didn't tell her enough. i stopped one "thank you" short, because:
this lady restored my faith in mankind. she was like the miracle you see in Christmas movies except the miracle never really happens in real life.
except, sometimes, when you least expect it........sometimes, it really does.
