This one is worth forwarding, to say the least.
Phil.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann K. Parsons" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 8:18 PM
Subject: A Christmas story
> Hi all,
>
> This is a true story. It happened to me last Tuesday evening. I
> imagine that it will spark some discussion, but let me say hear that I
> look at this incident as a Christmas miracle, a good thing.
>
> I belong to the Rochester Chapter of ACB. We had our Christmas dinner
> this year at a local restaurant. This Restaurant is one of the better
> restaurants in town, and it is quite pricy, or at least I think it
> is. It's the kind of place that has Valet parking and so on. It's an
> up-scale steak house.
>
> Well, we all got there, and we ordered drinks and our dinners. I
> ordered the Chicken French, a $17.00 value. We had a wonderful time.
> We talked and we chatted in this private room we had. Between dinner
> and dessert we all decided that we were feeling like singing, so we up
> and sang six or seven Christmas carols. There were eighteen of us,
> four of us sighted and the rest are blind. <smiling> There were
> guide dogs all over the place!
>
> Well, our dessert came, it was ice cream, and we ate and started
> digging in our pockets and purses for our credit cards and our cash.
> In comes the waiter and says, "I'd like to make an announcement."
>
> We all got quiet and listened. He continued, "An anonymous patron has
> paid your bill. It's all taken care of."
>
> I just sat there floored. I mean some anonymous person or persons had
> just spent approximately $700.00 on eighteen people whom he/she didn't
> know. I think this is a Christmas miracle. What could we do except
> say thank you? We all paid our tip, of course. The service was
> great! We asked if the patron was still in the restaurant, and were
> told that the person had left.
>
> Me, I said a prayer for the donor, and Ive decided that I'm going to
> take the money I was going to spend on dinner and give it to a couple
> of charities. I feel as if I need to pay forward. But what a nice
> thing? What an unexpected bonus it truly was.
>
> Merry Christmas everyone. There are nice people in the world. Yes,
> the donor may have felt sorry for all those people and their canes and
> their guide dogs, but I'm sure he/she felt good doing it, and we're
> appreciative.
>
> Ann P.
>
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> Ann K. Parsons
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> "All that is gold does not glitter.
> Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
>
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