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Whenever the other waitresses saw Matthew pulling up in his old car, they
would tell Amber that her “boyfriend” had arrived. They teased Amber about the
day the elderly Matthew would propose to her.
“What are you going to tell him?” asked Chelsea. “If you say no, he might
go home and drink himself to death. If you say yes, the shock might give him a
heart attack.” Amber put up with her coworkers’ jokes.
Matthew continued to visit the Do-Drop-In regularly, but never proposed to
Amber. The last time he ate breakfast there, he told her he was not feeling
well. That's why he didn't finish the pancakes, he said. And he had only one
refill of coffee. For the first time ever, he left Amber a two-dollar tip. She
tried to return one dollar, figuring that he had made a mistake. He said no, she
had earned that second dollar. She thanked him.
In his will, Matthew left a dollar each to the Republican and Democratic
parties; the rest of his money, $50,000, he left to Amber. He noted in his will
that Amber’s friendly smile was the “syrup on my pancakes.” Amber’s coworkers
were happy for her, at first.
But later, when she hadn’t offered to share her money with them, some of
them got angry. “You’re supposed to share the tips,” said Chelsea. “We’ve always
pooled all the tips for each shift, and then distributed the total amount
equally. This $50,000 was just an extra-large tip from a regular customer, and
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发表于 2016-7-10 09:21:40