Applebee’s Waiter Is Given $500 Tip For His Small Act Of Kindness

A Texas waiter received the shock of a lifetime when he received a 135,000-percent tip from one of his tables.

The bill, which totaled less than a dollar, came with a $500 tip from an extremely generous woman.

“I thought, ‘This has got to be a joke. There’s no way,'” Kasey Simmons of Little Elm told ABC News. “Then, I read that letter and I’m thinking, ‘This $500 tip is for real, dude!'”

Why did this waiter receive such a huge tip for such little service. Well, earlier that day, Simmons had paid for a stranger’s grocery bill at a Kroger supermarket nearby.

“I noticed there was a lady standing in front of me,” he said. “It looked like she had been crying, because once in a while she’d glance over to me. I go up to her and say, ‘It’s not raining inside. There’s no reason to look so down. I’m sure you have a beautiful smile because you are a beautiful lady.'”

“It looked like she had a bad day. She kind of shut me down a little bit. I wanted to make her at least grin a little bit, and it wasn’t happening.”

Simmons offered to pay for the woman’s $17 grocery bill. After some coaxing, the stranger agreed, and Simmons succeeded in making her smile. He handed her his Applebee’s business card before bidding her farewell and heading to work, he said.

Upon arriving at work however, Simmons said he had a really rough shift. He was about to leave for the night when a woman asked for a table. She ordered nothing but a .65 glass of flavored water. When it came time to pay the check, she asked to split the bill on two separate credit cards.

“By this point I said, ‘This lady’s crazy,'” Simmons joked. “I brought her the check, and she asked me to split the 65 cents between two credit cards and I said, ‘Are you serious?’ I think she wanted to see if I was a real nice guy or a fake nice guy. The real nice guy splits it, and brings the lady her check.”

But Simmons still split the check, putting .37 on one receipt. But when he looked at that receipt, the woman left Simmons $500 on that one, making a grand total of $500.37.

Sitting on the table was also a note that read, in part:

“On behalf of the Sullivan family, I want to thank you for being the person you are. On one of the most depressing days of the year, (the death of my father’s 3 year anniversary) you made my mother’s day wonderful. She has been smiling since you did what you did.”

He hasn’t gotten the chance to express his gratitude to her, but sure is grateful. We’re grateful people like this exist in the world too. If this story inspired you, please SHARE with friends and family.

[Featured Image: Kacey Simmons]

Applebee’s Waiter Is Given $500 Tip For His Small Act Of Kindness is an article from: LifeDaily