An impoverished woman offers to pay for a man’s groceries and receives an unexpected reward a few days later.
Since it was a weekend and it had been a long time since his work had given him a break, Sam Wilson decided to embrace the household chores and took his children Caroline and Max for grocery shopping.
Having added everything to the shopping cart, he was about to proceed to the cashier when Max came running to him. “Daddy! Daddy!” he cried. “Can we please get some chocolates too? Please, daddy?”
“Sure, Max!” Sam cracked a grin. “But you’ll have to share them with your sister. Remember, sharing is caring, okay?”
The boy giggled. “All right, daddy!”
“But where is Caroline? You two were together, right?”
“I’m here, daddy!” Caroline said as she strolled out of one of the aisle rows, clutching a large box of her favorite cereal. “Daddy! You bought the wrong cereal! I like this one,” she replied as she handed him the bag.
“Oh, sorry, honey,” Sam said and gladly replaced the cereal box with one Caroline had brought. Then he took the chocolates Max had requested and went to the checkout counter. However, just as the cashier was about to hand over the bill, Sam realized he’d left his wallet at home.
“Jeez!” he thought to himself as he reached into his back pocket and found it empty.
“Uhh…” he told the cashier. “If you don’t mind, can you please keep these items aside? Unfortunately, I forgot my wallet at home, so I’ll have to call someone and ask them to get my wallet.”
The cashier scowled and glanced at Sam as if he had asked her for her organs. “What’s wrong with people these days!” she muttered to herself, but loud enough for Sam to hear. “Can’t even check if they brought their wallets before buying stuff from here!”
“Here,” she grumbled, pointing to a card she placed on the table. “Write your name down and place it in your bag. And yes, I want the payment now, or else you won’t be getting any of the stuff you want. Now get out of the way; other customers are awaiting their turn. I’ll keep your stuff on hold till then.”
“Of course, thank you!” Sam responded with a forced smile. He exited the queue, holding Max and Caroline’s hands. “Guys!” he said. “Daddy is going to fetch his phone from the car and call someone to have our bill paid. Until then, you stay here and don’t go anywhere, okay?”
The children nodded in unison, and Sam walked out of the store. However, this time again, luck wasn’t quite on his side, and he realized he had forgotten his phone on the living room table. “Ugh…seriously, Sam?” He cursed himself, having checked the whole car. “This has to be the worst day of my life! How the hell did I forget everything at home?”
He returned to the store and informed Max and Caroline that he would be unable to pay for the items, but they weren’t pleased. They refused to leave the store without their chocolates and cereal. “No, daddy! I want the chocolates! I WANT THEM!” cried Max.
“I want my cereal too, daddy! You promised us you would buy us whatever we wanted! Please, daddy!” added Caroline….CONTINUE READING