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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
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.
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.