Kansas Mediocrity

Customer gives $400 tip to help buy books

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A customer at a Kansas restaurant left a $400 tip for a waitress who had been talking to a co-worker about her problems paying for college textbooks.

Marlena Hayes told KMBC-TV in Kansas City that her benefactor, a woman who had been eating at Mimi's Cafe in Overland Park with two small children, also left a note Tuesday that said, "Good luck with school." Hayes said she was shocked when she discovered the size of the tip.

"One of my co-workers was actually holding me, I was shaking," she said. "I was just so touched and overwhelmed."

Hayes said that, for the first time in two months, she went to sleep without worrying about money.

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