Posted on 05/14/2018 7:07:17 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. — A mother in South Carolina received a special Mother's Day gift Sunday after the staff at a Ruby Tuesday's noticed she was eating lunch by herself.
According to WMBF, Barbara Foy went to get lunch by herself at the Ruby Tuesday near Surfside Beach after she didn't receive a call from her son on Mother's Day. She said he hasn't called her for some time.
When the staff realized Foy was eating alone, they pitched in to make her a Mother's Day gift basket filled with goodies.
Foy's lunch was also paid for, and a customer bought her a rose.
"I really felt like I was queen for a day, mother for a day!" Foy said. "I've never been made to feel so special."
Lauren Nave, the general manager of the Ruby Tuesday, said Foy touched the entire staff by her story.
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It is also wonderful to see that the compassion and goodwill crossed racial boundaries.
Bless them all.
I have a neighbor who is an elderly yenta. She’s hard to deal with sometimes but my heart breaks that her two daughters never, ever visit her. My mom caused a lot of heartache in my life but I took care of her needs up until the end. It was my duty.
Call yer mom!
This sort of “divorce” between older folks and their adult children has become quite common. Dennis Prager addresses the situation from time to time on his (outstanding) radio program, and when he does his switchboard lights up.
Those young ladies were obviously raised right.
the son is a sh*theel.
How do you know he’s at fault?
I don’t give either my sperm or egg donor the time of day and for good reason.
What a heart warming story.
I have a number of friends whose children refuse to speak to them. It is heartbreaking, but I have experienced with some friends and relatives, they are toxic to my life. I cannot imagine what most of my friends may have done to cause this behavior from their children. With some friends, I understand it.
Sweet!
Went over 20 years without contact from one child. Pleased to say we have reunited and the reunion has been great! Religion and respect for God’s word is what brought her back.
The media likes to hype people being rotten to one another. Too bad they won’t run with this and broadcast it all over the country. But they won’t. They would rather fan the flames of racial discord.
I was a surrogate dad for two sisters whose sociopath mother so abused them that they each walked out of the house on their 18th birthdays. Both are well into adulthood, with families of their own, and they refuse to have anything to do with their mother. Their mother blames everyone else for the alienation and refuses to take any responsibility — too mentally disturbed to recognize what she has done. It’s a sorrowful situation, and I know their mother spends holidays, anniversaries, and birthdays on her own. I haven’t encouraged or discouraged the sisters in any way regarding their mother, but I do see the deep and lasting scars she has left on her children. BTW, nobody on her side of the family or that of her ex-husband will have anything to do with her...it’s that bad.
I just imagined the next 20 comments in this subthread, and neither one of us ended it particularly satisfied.
I say we just forgo the whole thing. If nothing else, it would be a better us of our time.
What I wouldn’t give to share a meal - or even just a phone conversation with my mother...
AMEN !!!!
OMG the staff is black!
My mother was mean as a snake...to me and the rest of the family. People who didn’t really know her thought she was the nicest person they’d ever met because she was so charming to them.
I still treated her with respect, went and saw her at least once a week, took her out for birthdays and Mother’s Day, etc.
When she was diagnosed with breast cancer it fell on me to take care of her til the day she died...which I did. I did it because there was no one else who would and she was my mother. Compassion has to set in sometime is what I told my brother. It never did for him. When she died I had no guilt though and he was racked with it.
God bless you for doing what you did under difficult circumstances.
Life is tough when one is estranged from their parents. Then death makes things even tougher.
You showed real integrity and character.
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