Learning Curves...

100. Give a Waitron 100% Tip.

It's been really crazy for me this term trying to juggle working and studying full time. But somehow things fall into place at the end. A couple weeks ago my sister and I decided to have a study day. So we packed up our study paraphernalia and made our way to a Mugg and Bean. At this point it's probably good to note that I have studied many a time there with one of my friends.

We ordered breakfast (which was really amazing) and got the bottomless coffee going, fully intending to remain in our seats till lunchtime, then order lunch and study a bit more. We got as far as breakfast and two coffees, which was about a 3/4 chapter of work.

Long story short, what I can only pressume to be the owner, decided anything besides eating and drinking will not be tolerated in his resturant! He kindly asked us to leave citing the "queue" of people outside waiting for a table as his reason for rudeness. I decided not to mention the fact that we had had breakfast, and were going to have lunch later as well. When my sister got back from refilling our mugs, i relayed the message to her. So we packed away our stuff, and sat for about another 15mins just finishing our coffee.

Two Questions:

If we sat just drinking bottomless coffee for three hours without a hint of books or laptops, would we still have been asked to leave?

If we were two well dressed businessmen sitting for three hours on our laptops would we have been asked to leave?

So anyway, we simply migrated to another coffee shop (studying at home doesn't work because we get distracted too easily). We were much better received at this destination.

So we landed up at Bugatti's, had awesome lunch and tea and studied a good few hours.

When we got the bill, I had the urge to completely turn my day around... so our waiter was blessed with what ended up as more than 100% tip. Lucky guy:)

It really redeemed my day! Exactly the lift I needed. Even now today I've been thinking how even in the worst of times, simple acts of kindness lift one out from the depths and entice you to appreciate a world saturated in beauty.

The Challenge: Regarless of what's currently happening i n your life, choose one person, one day whom you can bless with a random act of kindness!