Obituary

Her eyes widened when she saw Buck’s obituary printed in the newspaper loud and clear. She was aghast by the news and tears came running down her cheeks. The old man had passed away and would never visit the restaurant again. She was feeling guilty about not making an effort to find the old man’s contact number. But he was gone now. She sat still on the floor and tried to calm herself down but the tears didn’t stop rolling down her cheeks.

Feeling Bad

She felt bad that she wasn’t even able to go to pay homage to the veteran whom she had served food for 7 consecutive years. But now she couldn’t do anything, he was no more. So no matter how much she cried, sobbed or felt guilty, nothing could bring him back. But she took a day to understand this thing. When she went back home she tried to calm herself down as she knew it was inevitable and was supposed to happen one day because the man had grown old.

Next Day

The next day she tried to remain as calm as possible so that she wouldn’t end up making mistakes again. Despite his cranky nature, the waitress was sad about Buck’s death. She tried to continue her life as usual but was finding it difficult to concentrate. Now she had to do her shift without waiting for her crabby customer. After he was gone, she realized that she had begun to like the old man despite his cranky nature he had become her favorite customer.

Needs

The old man was a war veteran, he might have gone through a lot in those years. His grumpiness was the aftermath of the years that he had spent in his job. She couldn’t even offer him dinner at her expense at Luby’s but the least she could do was to be kind to him. But people at the restaurant never used to understand this thing. Little did she know that the old man used to notice how patient she was with him.

Good Deeds

It is always said that good deeds never go in vain and something similar happened with the waitress too. She used to take his orders because she thought it was her duty as a waitress to wait on customers. There was no hidden motive behind it. She just wanted to put a smile on the veteran’s face because she had seldom seen him smiling.

Hard Work

She had never thought in her dream that the veteran would have noticed her but it turned out he actually appreciated the young woman and her hard work. Though he had never said that in public or to her manager, he was keenly observing the waitress. She was dumbfounded when she came to know that she was his favorite waitress. But there was more to the surprising revelation.