Everyone Laughs at Poor Old Lady Entering Fancy Restaurant until a Young Man Steps In — Story of the Day
A poor woman asks to buy half a pie at a gourmet restaurant and is mocked, but one man stands up for her and teaches them all a lesson in humility.
Pierre. the maître d’ of New Hampshire’s most exclusive gourmet restaurant Chez Michel was stunned. A tiny thin woman in her sixties had just walked in and made the most incredible request.
Pierre looked down his nose at her and sneered. “I’m sorry ma’am, we don’t take walk-in guests — ever…”
“Please,” she said quietly, while all around the restaurant’s elegant customers looked at her sideways and tittered behind their hands. “It’s a special circumstance. Can’t you make an exception?”
Chez Michel was the most elegant and expensive restaurant in town. | Source: Shutterstock.com
Pierre drew himself up to his full height. “No exceptions!” he said coldly. “We owe it to our customers! Now please go, ma’am. You are disturbing our guests and I can tell you I don’t have any tables available.”
The woman looked around and noticed three or four tables standing empty and looked Pierre in the eye: “I don’t want to sit at one of your tables or disturb your ‘guests’ with the likes of me, I just want to buy a slice of pie.”
“I’m afraid we only serve food on the premises, we don’t do take away!”
“Please,” the old woman pleaded, tears in her eyes, “All I want is a slice of cherry pie — I have thirteen dollars, that should be enough?”
The maître d’ was upset when he saw a poor woman walk in. | Source: Unsplash
Pierre curled his lip in disdain. “I’m afraid not, ma’am. Everything on our dessert cart is over $50 dollars a serving.”
The woman turned away defeated and walked towards the door, tears running down her face. As she walked past one table, a man got up and came towards her. “Excuse me,” he said gently. “What was it you wanted?”
He led the old woman to the table he shared with a lovely woman with sad eyes and invited her to sit down. “Please,” he said. “I’m Mark Langley, and this is my wife Hailey, and we want to help you.”
The woman introduced herself. “I’m Karen Billings and all I wanted was to buy a slice of Chez Michel’s famous cherry pie. You see, my granddaughter and I used to walk...