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Tip From Generous Couple Replaces Waitress’s Battered Car
Yahoo News-Trending now ^ | 10/9/14 | By Emily Scharnhors

Posted on 12/09/2014 1:48:09 PM PST by Kartographer

Gary and Roxann Tackett, from Arkansas, had been frequenting the restaurant all summer. They say they had noticed an old, battered vehicle regularly in the parking lot. Gary thought it was abandoned because it was in such bad shape.

The Tacketts asked around the restaurant and were told that the car belonged to one of the employees. The couple decided that something needed to be done and they were going to be the ones to do it.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the Tacketts gave Cindi a car.

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"Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. " Matthew 25:45

To me the greater gift was the one the Tacketts gave to themselves by their giving.

Let the sneering and jeering commence.
1 posted on 12/09/2014 1:48:09 PM PST by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

amen


2 posted on 12/09/2014 1:52:41 PM PST by Mercat ("The sisters did not want to save the world. Someone already had.")
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To: Kartographer

Amen, FRiend.

No sneering here....


3 posted on 12/09/2014 1:54:05 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Kartographer

Great story. Thanks for sharing. And bless the waitress for her work ethic!


4 posted on 12/09/2014 1:54:06 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: NEMDF
"And bless the waitress for her work ethic!"

You got that right. Jesus said the poor would always be with us, but what people don't understand is the difference between the poor and the slothful.

The bible gives clear instructions on how we are to treat both the poor with pity and compassion the other with scorn and contempt.
6 posted on 12/09/2014 1:59:09 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

“When Cindi spotted Gary and Roxann standing near a silver 2008 Ford Fusion with a red bow on it, she was overwhelmed with emotion. She says she had been feeling depressed and had planned to replace her car, which had been damaged by five encounters with deer, but she lacked the money.”

She’s hit five separate deer?


7 posted on 12/09/2014 2:02:04 PM PST by GQuagmire
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To: Kartographer
Amazing. Beater doesn't begin to describe her old car.

It was a Cracker Barrel restaurant. A lot of people sneer and jeer at those places too.

8 posted on 12/09/2014 2:03:09 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: GQuagmire

The Missouri ozarks has almost as many deer as people!


9 posted on 12/09/2014 2:05:00 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

What a wonderful story! God bless these good people!


10 posted on 12/09/2014 2:05:12 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Kartographer

Is venison on the Cracker Barrel menu?


11 posted on 12/09/2014 2:07:22 PM PST by GQuagmire
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To: GQuagmire

If she gets three more deer, Santa will have no team to pull his sleigh!

I hope they installed deer horns on the car.


12 posted on 12/09/2014 2:14:38 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: colorado tanker

“It was a Cracker Barrel restaurant. A lot of people sneer and jeer at those places too. “

I love the place.

Guess that makes me a hick.

But I’m a hick what’s a lot smarter than them thar libs.

By a long shot!


13 posted on 12/09/2014 2:19:13 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

I like Cracker Barrels too. When your on the road and want to sit down to a hot meal they’re great. Guess I’m just another flyover country hick.


14 posted on 12/09/2014 2:23:14 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
I hope they installed deer horns on the car.

II can attest that those things really work. I've seen the deer stop, look, and skedaddle the opposite way when, normally, they run right at you. They cost less than $10 at any auto parts store and glue right on the grille.

15 posted on 12/09/2014 2:37:23 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

If she can’t miss deer in the road, hopefully she keeps collision insurance on the car and has some cash for deductibles.


16 posted on 12/09/2014 2:39:20 PM PST by Sasparilla
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Well a liberal couple would have made a small contribution to the ‘preserve the deer from vehicles foundation’ in her name and would have presented her a framed certificate of donor to hang on her wall.


17 posted on 12/09/2014 2:41:03 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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She’s hit five separate deer?

That cost a few bucks.

18 posted on 12/09/2014 2:41:45 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
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To: Ken H

There’s a TV commercial about a genie popping out of a lamp and granting a wish. The guy asks for a million bucks. He gets his wish, ehehehehehe.


19 posted on 12/09/2014 2:45:06 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

i have them on the harley. works for dogs too


20 posted on 12/09/2014 2:45:25 PM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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