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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