After reading my local newspaper this morning, I'm seriously thinking that I'm going to pick up and move to a little small town about two hours north of here and get a job at the Pizza Hut there. The story that I read this morning surely made my jaw drop when I read it, and I thought that it would be something that all of you would like to hear about. As it turns out, the story has to do with this young lady who was living in this small town in central Indiana and had gotten herself a job at the Pizza Hut restaurant in her town in order to help her make ends meet. Apparently she had graduated from high school and tried to go to college, but after just two semesters, she wasn't able to make it work financially. She ended up moving back home and has remained there since, though all the while wanting to get back to school and make something more of her life. In the few years that she has worked at the Pizza Hut, the article explains that she met a lot of customers, many of whom became regulars and would request that she be their server when they visited the restaurant for their meal. One family of customers in particular took a liking to this girl and shared a lot of stories about their lives. At some point recently, this server from Pizza Hut decided that she was going to give it a try again at school and would be leaving the restaurant to move closer to the college that she formerly attended. On her last night of work, the family that she had talked to countless times over the years came in to have their dinner and say goodbye to their favorite server. Once she had finished tending to all the other tables, she sat down with the family to chat. Before she got up, they handed her a folded check. The article describes the girls reaction as confused, and then elated as she opened the check to see it written out in her name for the amount of ten thousand dollars. The girl incredulously asked for an explanation. As it turns out, somewhere along the way, someone in this particular family had passed away and a scholarship fund was created in that person's memory. Since none of the children in the family were near ready to head off to school, the fund was just sitting around and collecting interest. After family discussion, they all decided that it would be appropriate and worthwhile to let this girl who was so intent on restarting her education and who had been so good to them at the restaurant over the last several years have some help in the form of ten thousand dollars to get her off on the right foot. Pretty amazing story, huh?! Now you can see why I'm thinking about dropping things and moving up there to get a job at Pizza Hut. I can't even imagine the multitude of emotions and thoughts running through me if such a thing were to happen to me. Of course ten thousand dollars isn't a lot of money, but for someone like this particular girl who had little of anything in her life besides her personality, intelligence, and drive, having ten thousand dollars is like having a new lease on life. That amount is probably more money than she has seen in her whole life, and it will give her an opportunity to do more with her life than many people living where she is from will ever dream to do. It really is a touching and inspiring story, and it surely brightened up my day. It's great to know that there are such selfless and generous people as this family who gave this "big tip" still around in our country today. The news always seems to highlight the wrongdoing, greed, and gluttony of American society, and seldom focuses in on the amazing and generous things that happen. Reading this article made me think ahead to my own future. I just hope that by doing what I'm doing now, I will be able to participate in starting such a fund where my children or other children will be able to benefit from some proper and smart financial planning ahead.