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Offline ABX

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This IHOP Waiter Helps A Woman With A Disability Eat Breakfast And People Are Beyond Touched
« on: March 29, 2017, 10:36:37 pm »
The feels for the day.

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Joe Thomas has had the same Saturday breakfast routine for about the last five years.

After checking on his customers at an IHOP in Springfield, Illinois, the 43-year-old server slides next to an elderly couple he calls Dale and Ma and helps them eat breakfast. Ma has Huntington's disease, a genetic disorder that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain, Thomas said, and has trouble with utensils....

https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/this-ihop-waiter-helps-a-disabled-woman-eat-breakfast-every?bftw&utm_term=.dvmlWRE27M#.ifdZ09g4AB


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Re: This IHOP Waiter Helps A Woman With A Disability Eat Breakfast And People Are Beyond Touched
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2017, 02:12:01 am »
Great story!
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Re: This IHOP Waiter Helps A Woman With A Disability Eat Breakfast And People Are Beyond Touched
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2017, 08:41:53 am »
Nice to see there are still nice people in the world!

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Re: This IHOP Waiter Helps A Woman With A Disability Eat Breakfast And People Are Beyond Touched
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2017, 11:38:41 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 30, 2017, 08:41:53 am
Nice to see there are still nice people in the world!

And, we should give the management credit too.  Most places wouldn't allow a waiter to do that. 
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Re: This IHOP Waiter Helps A Woman With A Disability Eat Breakfast And People Are Beyond Touched
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2017, 11:44:58 am »
Quote from: Sanguine on March 30, 2017, 11:38:41 am
And, we should give the management credit too.  Most places wouldn't allow a waiter to do that.
I agree!
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Re: This IHOP Waiter Helps A Woman With A Disability Eat Breakfast And People Are Beyond Touched
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2017, 01:05:52 pm »
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Thomas said he was raised to help others. He grew up caring for his mother, who had diabetes and died in 2008, he said, and has been helping his father through prostate cancer. He also worked at a rehabilitation center before his long stint at IHOP.

Sounds like Mom and Dad raised him right.
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