Happiness at Last; Family Anonymously Buys Another Family Dinner in Front of My Own Eyes

     Saturday night was a pretty busy night at Olive Garden. I was working a double, and even though it was busy I was definitely not having the best day. They turned two of my tables into one for parties the entire night, I was not getting good tips, and I was just tired from a long week. However, one of my last tables was a family of four and they completely turned my night around.
     Just looking at them they didn't seem different, just a nice family going out to dinner to spend some time together. The parents ordered alcoholic drinks, children (were teenagers) soda, appetizers, full entries, and dessert. The father paid, left me $20 on $100 (my first good tip all night), I thanked them and figured they were going to leave.
     As I thought they were getting up the father pulled me aside and asked me if I knew who the server was for a different table. Sitting at the other table were two ladies and three very young children. I told the father of course and got her right way. We were all curious to what he wanted her for, and once we found out we were all in shock.
     He asked Patty (the waitress of the other table) if they were almost done eating and if so he would like to pay for their entire meal. We couldn't stop smiling. I've heard of people doing such nice gestures for people, but I never thought I would be able to witness it with my own eyes. As Patty was making sure her table was done I started talking to the father.
     He went on to tell me that every time he goes out to dinner with his family they always try and find one table with young children and pay for their bill. I wish I would have been able to get a picture of him and his family. 
     After paying the bill, and leaving Patty a $15 tip, he went over to the table and told the ladies what he did for them. The look on their face a pure amazement, happiness, thankfulness, and shock. They would have never guessed that would have happened to them, and neither would I. The father told those ladies to pass the good deed on and do something nice for somebody else. Let's just hope they did and so on and so fourth. If everyone did one good deed a day to a stranger and kept passing it along the world would be a lot happier and grateful. 
     I will never forget what happened that night. It gave me such happiness knowing that their really are nice people in the world that try to help others out any way they can. I know not everybody has enough money to pay for other people's dinner, but there are other ways to create happiness. 
     Try it out and go make somebody's day while also making yours :)