14 DAY TRIAL // Cracker Barrel restaurant from Lincoln, Nebraska praise themselves for having some of the state's happiest servers and when two customers came and asked for their grumpiest waiter, because they were planning to cheer someone up, they couldn't comply and sent their sunniest employee instead.
The restaurant's hostess was a bit amazed to be asked for the dinner's grumpiest server by a man looking to have lunch with a friend. The employee respectfully told them that, instead of a grumpy waiter, she would sent the sunniest one to the table, 18-year-old Abigail Sailors.
The pair, planning to brighten up someone's day, started chatting with their happy waitress, asking her about the reasons for her happy disposition. Sailors proceeded to telling her story to the two interested customers.
The young server was the youngest of five children, enduring years or foster care system and being robbed of a normal childhood. Abigail was taken away from her siblings and then had to put up with multiple times of being united and later set apart again, making her pain even bigger. The worst part of her foster care journey was the abuse she endured until her parents finally took all of them back in, notes Yahoo Shine.
Besides the fact that she had her whole family together again, Abigail completed her first semester in college at Trinity Bible in Ellendale, North Dakota. Sadly, she had to pay for her own education and didn't have enough to return to school in the next semester, and she was working as a waitress to raise money for her education.
The pair left a tip of $100 (€73) for the waitress and another server, and then decided to reward Abigail in a way she would never forget. The man got his checkbook and wrote her two checks, one for $5,000 (€3,670) to pay for her school and one for $1,000 (€734) to spend on whatever she wanted. He then revealed that he also was a Trinity college alumnus and that he was glad to help.
“I couldn't believe it. I tried to thank them, and they said ‘Thank God’,” the even happier waitress told the Lincoln Journal Star. The sunny server can now afford to go back to school for her second semester without worrying, at least for this year's tuition.