A waitress that works in Beaver County had her Christmas made when she was surprised with an unexpected gift from one of the families she served.
Chelsea Brown works at the Texas Roadhouse location in Monaca. She tells KDKA Radio she is a foster mother and is currently going through a divorce.
On Tuesday a woman and her children asked to play the “tip game”, and it made her night.
“Tonight you’re family asked me to play the “tip game” and absolutely delivered a miracle,” Brown wrote on Facebook. “Your children’s faces lit up as they surprised me with a huge tip and their pure joy from GIVING is making me cry as I’m writing this. Your tip covered the rest of my rent and enabled me to FINALLY be able to focus on giving my kids a good Christmas.”
Browns says that night she was hoping to make sure she would make enough to cover both her rent, still short $160, and enough to put gas in her car to make it back home to Ohio where she lives. (She had taken $20 out of her rent money just to make it to work).
Brown adds the mother and her children were kind and polite the entire time they were at the restaurant using their manors, saying things like “yes, please.”
When they asked her to play the “tip game” Brown almost told them she was too busy, since they were dealing with a full restaurant, but she decided to play because the kids were so excited.
“The tip game was they put money under napkins for me, there was a 50 and two 20s and I picked a 20 at first and the one little kid was heartbroken,” said Brown.
Not only did the family give her all the money they had hid including another $100, giving Brown enough to cover rent plus more.
“I truly cannot thank you enough,” said Brown “I PRAY you see this and know what a huge impact you made on me tonight, how you saved me and my sanity, and how grateful I am for your graciousness, angels truly do exsist and I met a whole family of them.”
Brown says she isn’t only able to cover her rent, she can now buy her kids the Christmas gifts they want after she told them things would be lean for the holiday.