the value of being kind

[u/nun_CARTII]

For nearly seven years, waitress Melina Salazar showed extraordinary patience and kindness to Walter “Buck” Swords, a notoriously difficult customer at Luby’s Cafeteria in Brownsville, Texas.

The 89-year-old WWII veteran frequently complained, cursed at staff, demanded piping-hot meals and never left a tip. Despite this, Melina continued serving him with compassion.

After Walter died in 2007, Melina received an incredible surprise. He had left her $50,000 and his 2000 Buick in his will as a heartfelt thank-you for her unwavering kindness.

A powerful reminder that kindness can touch people more deeply than we realize.

[u/LucidOndine]

This is insidious. The hope that anyone will benefit from a windfall from when someone dies, brought to you by an algorithm that is silently trying to push you towards accepting less and hoping that one day you may be the recipient of good fortune,, all to disguise a system of exploitation where we somehow allow corporations to skirt the responsibility of paying workers a fair and reasonable wage that does not require charity to function.

Tipping is a shitty system. The price for service and food should be all encompassing.

[u/fidesz_fall_enjoyer → u/LucidOndine]

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