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Originally Posted by Frankster
I was at Wal-Mart a few years ago just after Christmas. There was a kid infront of me in line buying some toys with his Christmas money. I could tell that he had very carefully calculated the toys he could get with his money. The catch was, he forgot about the GST. The GST amount was less than a buck and the kid looked crestfallen that he would have to put one of the toys back so I pulled a loonie out of my pocket and paid his GST.
His mom comes to the end of the till (had gone through in a different line) and says to the kid "How did you get all of that, you didn't have enough money?" The kid turns and points to me saying "I had enough money, but I forgot about the GST. That nice lady over there gave me the money for the GST, it was less than a dollar mom."
The woman looks at me and sneers "Thanks a lot", turns around and leaves. The kid looked at me, said "I'm sorry. Thank you very much."
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Man, that story is more sad than anything else.