This is the Spokane I know

I had an experience yesterday that I had to share.  

I was in Costco shopping for sandwich supplies.  Once a week (mostly;>), my wife Nettie and I and our good friends Mark and Sue make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and deliver them to Jewels Helping Hands for distribution to the homeless citizens they check in on every day.

I put 9 bags (18 loaves) of Franz Big White bread in my cart (we already had the PB&J) and a few personal items and wheeled it to the check out line.  The lady in front of me, looking at all the loaves, said “Wow!  That’s a lot of bread!  What are you going to do with it?” I replied, “My wife and I are using it to make sandwiches for Jewels Helping Hands to pass out to homeless folks.”

She smiled and nodded and turned back to her order, which was being rung up.  When the clerk finished she said, “I want to pay for his bread”.  No sooner said than the Costco clerk, with a smile on his face, zapped ‘em all.  $50 bucks worth of bread.  All I could do is smile and tear up, just like my dear friend Maurice (it is a real problem for us old guys!!).  “Thank you!” I said, choking up a bit.  “You made my day!”.  

To which she replied, “And you made mine.”

Amen, my friends.  That’s the Spokane I know, and that’s why I do this.

Dan