The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children.
He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn’t be able to afford it all before Christmas. Then a mysterious woman stepped up to the counter.
“She told him, `No, I’m paying for it,”’ recalled Edna Deppe, assistant manager at the store in Indianapolis. “He just stood there and looked at her and then looked at me and asked if it was a joke. I told him it wasn’t, and that she was going to pay for him. And he just busted out in tears.”
At Kmart stores across the country, Santa is getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers’ layaway accounts, buying the Christmas gifts other families couldn’t afford, especially toys and children’s clothes set aside by impoverished parents.
Before she left the store Tuesday evening, the Indianapolis woman in her mid-40s had paid the layaway orders for as many as 50 people. On the way out, she handed out $50 bills and paid for two carts of toys for a woman in line at the cash register.
There may be hope yet.
When I’m an adult and have kids I will make/buy this and then ask my kids if they want some:
They’ll be all
“Um, no thanks.”
And I’m like “Are you sure?”
“Yup.”
“Positive?”
“Yes, mom.”
“Okay, then me and your father will eat it.”
And they’re all
Until I cut it , then they’re all
“Oh, now you want some, right? Too bad.”
PARENTING, YOU’RE DOING IT RIGHT.
drhfquinzel:thebrucewayne:h3ll-in-high-h33ls:goddessofcheese:popculturetart:
#GODDAMIT LOOK WHAT YOU DID #NOW FOLKLORE AND DIPLOMACY AND LINGUISTICS ARE ALL MIXED UP #HAVE YOU NO FUCKING RESPECT #THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU #GO FIND A ROOM #OR AT LEAST A COLLEGE LIBRARY #THEM BITCHES DO LIBRARY OF CONGRESS #I CAN’T DEAL WITH THAT SHIT #NOW SHOO.
#AND HER SHOES ARE GOING TO RIP THE SPINES OF THE HARDCOVERS AND PAPERBACKS AND EVERY DAMN BOOK HER SHOES GET IT’S EVIL CLUTCHES ON. NO
