"What if he's an angel sent here from Heaven
And he's making certain that you're doing your best"
-STS
I have to tell you what happened to me. I am a waitress at Bob's Big Boy restaurant on the weekends. Today, as I was finishing my shift, I saw a young man sitting in my section with a cup of coffee, in front of him, and he had no menu. He looked to be about nineteen or twenty. He was bald with several obvious body piercing. When I asked him if he wanted anything, other than coffee, he told me that he just came in to get out of the heat. He said he did not have the money to pay for the coffee so he had not touched it yet.
I told him to enjoy his coffee, as I would buy it. I then made a statement, out loud, more to myself, that I should hope if ever I didn't have the money for a cup of coffee, someone would see fit to buy me a cup.
A little later I saw the same young man crying. I went over to him and asked if he was alright? He said that the people, who had been sitting at the next table, gave him $5 on their way out. Then another couple came over to him and asked him if he had a place to stay and gave him an additional $10. He continued and said that a gentleman, a couple of booths over, offered him a job washing cars at a garage.
He said when he woke up this morning, he had decided that this was to be his last day on earth. He went on to say that his parents had kicked him out when he was 16 and recently times had become very hard. He said he had no where to turn.
Now he had a job, a place to stay, at least for the weekend, and $15 cash. All this unfolded because he took a chance to come in, out of the heat, and was brave enough to admit that he had no money.
I can not tell you what this did for my faith in my fellow man. I am still crying when I think of it. This seems to be an Angels and miracle story. I don't remember ANY of the people he said approached him. It was my section at the very back of the restaurant. I thought that, except for the two of us, it was empty.
The next day Ricky came back to the restaurant after work. He is very excited to have a job and said that things were really looking up.
By Ember of Arlington, Texas USA
