Man leaves $50,000, car to waitress

[jec1]

For nearly seven years Melina Salazar did her best to put on a smile and tend to the every need of her most loyal and cantankerous customer.

She made sure his food was as hot as he wanted, even if it meant he burned his mouth. And she smiled through his demands and curses. The 89-year-old Walter "Buck" Swords obviously appreciated it, leaving the waitress $50,000 and a 2000 Buick when he died.

"I still can't believe it," the Luby's cafeteria employee told Harlingen television station KGBT-TV in an interview during which she described Swords as "kind of mean."

Swords, a World War II veteran, died in July. But Salazar learned just a few days before Christmas that he had left her the money and car.

Now this is what christmas is all about.... brought a tear to my eye

[Zaphod]

Very cool story. It pays to be nice to people. Karma and all that sort of thing.

[Podolski]

I heard a story about rich women who wrote her will to two chinese restaurant owners

[Jager]

Not uncommon at all. My parent's doctor who is by no means poor, was left a fortune by an old man, as he had nobody. He wanted the money to go to someone who would use it wisely, as opposed to someone who would blow it on crap.

Be nice to old people.

[jec1]

Be nice to old people.

.... who knows, You'll might just end up with a nice cash in front of your doorstep!