Maria Balboa works as a bagger at the H-E-B in Corpus Christi, TX. Last Monday, she was bagging for a woman who had two little boys with her. When it was time to pay, Maria said the woman only had $19 left on her SNAP card and couldn’t afford the rest of the total.
“She was going to put back the groceries(杂货) instead of a couple of things that she needed for dinner that night. I asked the cashier(收银员) what the remaining total was and she said it was $137,” Maria recalled. “Soon I heard a voice inside my head saying, ‘pay for the groceries’. I stopped to think for a second but then I heard again, ‘Pay for the groceries, Maria!’”
The woman tried to refuse the kind offer but Maria insisted. Maria paid the bill. The next day, Maria was called into the manager’s office. She thought she was in trouble. It turns out the woman whose groceries she paid for filled out a survey. In the survey, the woman explained her problems. She is providing for her two grandchildren on her own and working a low-paying job to keep the grandchildren out of foster(寄养) care.
“I was embarrassed not having enough money and she insisted to pay for them,” the woman wrote in the survey. “Today she made me cry but happy tears. Thank you from the heart for your kindness. My grandkids and I have managed to pull through since January. It’s been very hard but God put this young lady at the bagging area for us. I wish I could have gotten her name.”
The store’s manager, Mark Moeller, ended up reimbursing(报销) Maria for her kindness. She also received a goody basket with groceries.
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