每天读一篇英语小故事：Man Leaves $50K to Waitress

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　　A waitress who worked in a truck stop restaurant received $50,000 in a
will. The popular Do-Drop-In Truck Stop is on interstate 10 just west of El
Paso, Texas. It’s open 24/7, and it seats 80. Matthew had been a regular
customer there for the last ten years. He was 70 when he started eating
breakfast there. He drove a 1980 Cadillac that was missing three of its hubcaps.
The car looked like it hadn’t been washed since 1981.
        　　Matthew was a skinny, bald guy. He wore glasses that sat crooked on his
nose, and he was missing one of his front teeth. Every so often he joked about
his missing tooth. “Ask me what happened to it,” he would ask his waitress. She
would ask. “I ran into a door,” he would reply, and then laugh like it was the
funniest joke in the world. Most waitresses thought he was a little weird. Each
of them hoped he wouldn’t sit in her section. He usually sat at a four-person
booth all by himself. He often spilled food onto the table and seat. To make
matters worse, he was a terrible tipper—one dollar was it, even though he
usually had several free refills of black coffee.
        　　“Oh, he’s just a harmless, lonely old guy,” said Amber. Matthew had taken a
shine to Amber. After the first couple of months of eating at Do-Drop-In, he
made it a point to sit in her section. He had other jokes which he shared with
Amber, but they were as bad as his tooth joke. She laughed at them anyway.