We stumbled in early one morning. In my pocket was a Dunkin Donuts gift card. A friend gave it to me and said that there was at least 5 dollars on it. Well, I was wrong....damn!...Marathon Man and I stood there looking at the young girl with the pretty smile and sort of asked her if she could 'spare" us a cup of coffee. {awkward silence}....for a few seconds we all just looked at each other and she said "I'll have to ask my manager"....another damn!...Marathon Man and I looked at each other as she went into the back room to ask her manager, and I could see the look on Marathon Mans face, he was thinking the same as me, kindred spirits, experienced hobo's, or just two homeless men in need of coffee.....{now lets see that good old American compassion in action}....She returns with her manager, an obese women, I use the word obese only because I am trying to be kind. Some people you can just look at and know they are miserable and we hit the jackpot here! I was right....
"ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!"
She proclaimed in a voice that was louder than it really needed to be. Thank God there were no customers, only the employees, and the look of disgust on their faces, was not directed at us, but at her...it was obvious she was the worst type of manager anyone could work for. The girl stood behind her and mouthed "I'm sorry"..which made Marathon Man and myself smile, and this infuriated the "donut Queen'.....but she had a audience now, and her wrath will be shown to all....
Marathon Man glanced at me and said in his "hippie, 60's dialect"...."WOW, MAN"!.....We both started laughing and this just put her over the top....How dare these two homeless "things" laugh at her....The Donut Queen!!!....So, in a even louder voice she made it clear "that we better not be asking any of her customers for money"...[panhandling, just like the politicians do come election time,but for some reason we think that is okay...hmmmm] Okay, you have to picture this, it's 5:00 am, and not one single person is even moving around out there, and there is no one in here!...I look around the store, and Marathon man looks around and we say together, 'what customers?".....we laughed, the employees laughed, and well the "Donut Queen" ....did not... go figure that!....I knew Marathon man was going to say something and what he said was classic, first his standard 'wow,man', and then "I think you have some jelly from a donut on your shirt."... She looked down but I was already heading out the door and the last thing I heard was Marathon Man laughing, the 'Donut Queen", ranting and her staff laughing...............The simplicity of a kind act, of just doing something good was lost on the "Donut Queen"....
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