Thank You Gazillion, Eileen

You know when you are ready to pay your purchase, you reach your hand in your pocket book and realized you forgot your purse? Well, I was that person the other day at the post office. The clerk already printed the postage and pressed it to a bubble yellow 11"x 8" envelope. In the envelope were two books I was mailing to Kakngah in Malaysia. The first was bead embroidery book and the second book was for my grandnephew, D'Haikal.

"$19.83", said Eileen the clerk. I reached my hand into my backpack and the section where I stored the purse was bare. I tried another sections eventhough I knew the purse was at home in my other backpack. Embarassed beyond words, I told the clerk that I didn't my purse with me. She couldn't cancel the transaction because the postage was already printed.

"Can you hold it for me? I will be back within one hour."

"Hmmmm...hold on a second." She went to the back and returned to a caunter a few minutes later with another clerk. But the second clerk walked out of the caunter and walked toward me. She didn't say a word, but smiled and handed to me a $20.00 bill. I looked at Eileen and she said, "I paid with my money first and you can come back anytime to pay me back."

I took the money from the second clerk and thanked her and handed the $20.00 bill to Eileen. What else can you say to a stranger who trust you except genuinely thank you, thank you and thank you? It took me 20 minutes to ride my bicycle.

When I got back to my apartment, the first thing I went to look was the shoe box where I keep almost a dozen Thank You cards that I've kept all these times. I found one that I really liked. It was a simple two-fold card with two words: Thank You on the front page. I thanked Eileen expressed my appreciation to her kindness. I rode back to the post office with a $20.00 bill neatly tucked in the card. When I walked back the second time into the South Station, Eilen was assisting a customer. I walked up to her, handed her the card and thanked her again.

Thank you Eileen.

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