18.05.12
Writer’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on Welch’s annual Christmas money giveaway.
This was to be the fourth year that an anonymous benefactress gives me a sizable amount of money and asks me to spread Christmas happiness at the street level.
Alas, the person did not pull through with the usual $1,000.
As contrasted with, it was $2,000.
Inspired, I hitched my mythical reindeer to my all-too-real ’94 pickup and was off, heading not for rooftops and chimneys but for the Harlow Track Dari Mart, where I blessed a potato-chip vendor with a $100 bill.
He seemed proper unfazed, as if I’d done nothing more than hand him a 10-percent-off coupon for a four-pack of washroom paper.
That’s one thing I’ve learned in this yearly venture: You never know how people will reply and, in most cases, what the money may mean to them and how they will choose to use it.
Source: The Register-Guard