There are still
F I R S T S
no matter how old you ever get to be.
Erin and I visited Niagara Falls over the 4th of July
last year. . .
it’s one of our favorite,
not-t0-far-away-places to visit. . .
It was early in the morning
as a Starbucks was opening
and we had just placed our orders
when a young man came in and asked us
if were were planning on going to the Casino
sometime T H A T day
and when we told him more than likely we would be going
he offered us a Poker Chip
for exchange of the money it was worth.
S C A M ?
I told him it wasn’t necessary because I would glad to buy him
whatever he wanted.
He immediately got very shy and taken aback.
“No, No, you don’t have to do that.”
“I want to do it, no problem. What would you like–anything you want.”
He ordered a breakfast sandwich and a shaken iced-tea.
This, to me,
is where it got extremely interesting.
The two baristas who were working that morning
couldn’t believe what they had just witnessed.
“Oh, that was so nice. I can’t believe you did that. . . “
“That just gave me chills and made my heart flutter. . . “
And even the young man,
severely embarrassed and humbled stammered,
“I can’t believe it; what a great thing to do. I don’t know how to even thank you. . . .”
he went on about how that was an unbelievably nice thing to do
as he offered up that he plays Poker every day for a living
(he barely looked old enough to even get into a Casino)
and when I asked him how that was working for him
he showed me a hand full of chips.
S U R P R I S E D
by each of their reactions
even more surprised
that the baristas remembered me
as they guy who bought breakfast for the guy
who wanted to exchange chips.
Did I play Poker
that morning. .
Did I Gamble
and lose. . . ?
or
did I Win
by going all
I N ?
Psssssssssssst:
I didn’t go on to later win thousands at the Casino later that day
but make no mistake about it
by being a
C a r i n g C a t a l y s t
in one early morning
isolated incident
I won over
the imaginations of
three who will now
think differently
about
C A S H I N G I N
There are still
F I R S T S
no matter how old you ever get to be—
BET IT
Better still
Make’em!