Always remember those who serve you.

>In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much
>less, a 10 year old
>boy
>entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table.  A
>waitress put a glass
>of
>water in  front of him.  "How much is an ice cream
>sundae?" he asked.
>"Fifty
>cents," replied the waitress.  The little boy pulled
>his hand out of
>his
>pocket and studied the coins in it. "Well, how much is
>a plain dish of
>ice
>cream?" he inquired.  By now more people were waiting
>for a table and
>the
>waitress was growing impatient. "Thirty-five cents,"
>she
>brusquely.replied." 
>The little boy again counted his coins.  "I'll have
>the plain ice
>cream," he
>said.  The waitress brought the ice cream, put the
>bill on the table
>and
>walked away.  The boy finished the ice cream, paid the
>cashier and left. When the waitress came back, she
>began to cry as she
>wiped
>down the table.  There, placed neatly beside the empty
>dish, were two
>nickels and five pennies - You see, he couldn't have
>the sundae,
>because he
>had tohave enough left to leave her a tip.

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