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Stunned waitress gets Porsche as tip in Sweden
Express India ^ | Thursday, August 18, 2005

Posted on 08/18/2005 10:17:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Stockholm, August 18: A waitress in Sweden thought her elderly customer was joking when he offered her his Porsche as a tip, but he kept his word and gave her the keys to the car, daily Aftonbladet reported on Thursday.

“I thought at first he was joking with me,” 19-year-old Josefin Justin told the paper.

Justin was waiting tables at the Njuraanger cafe in sundsvall in Central Sweden when the man, who had recently retired and was dining with a group of gentlemen, asked her age.

When she told him, “he said I would get his Porsche as a tip”.

“At first I was a little suspicious but I didn’t get the feeling he was hitting on me or anything, he just seemed really nice,” she said.

She got his phone number and the next day when she called him, he said he remembered his generous offer. Accompanied by her father, she went to the man’s house to pick up her new car.

It turned out to be 1979 Porsche 924 worth 4,000 dollars.

“It needs a little work, a paint job among other things, but we checked it out and everything was fine,” Justin said.

The man, who asked to remain anonymous, told the paper he could not really explain why he gave her the car.

“I was just sitting there in the restaurant and looked her in the eyes and saw an angel and thought to myself ‘the Porsche, she should have it’,” he said.

Asked if he had any regrets, he replied, “no, absolutely not”.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gratuities; india; sweden
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To: RockinRight

15 years ago you would have been right.

I'm getting old. I have an NSX, they still look, but only at the car.


81 posted on 08/18/2005 1:27:39 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: RockinRight
If you had the first car, getting the two girls shouldn't be too difficult...

The Porsche purist doesn't buy the car to attract girls. He buys the car to show off the girls he already has...

82 posted on 08/18/2005 1:28:32 PM PDT by Snardius
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To: Monty Python

You are SO bad! LOL


83 posted on 08/18/2005 1:28:48 PM PDT by Rose of Sharn (I get the best answers when i talk to myself!)
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To: bert
I thought they were willowy vivacious blondes.

You mean like these?

84 posted on 08/18/2005 1:34:29 PM PDT by Snardius
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To: RockinRight

Let's see, he's got this faggot artist for a neighbor who has an insufferable dog, writes romance novels and has a phobia about sidewalk cracks, right?


85 posted on 08/18/2005 1:34:38 PM PDT by Old Professer (As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
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To: Snardius

Wrong, wrong, wrong.


88 posted on 08/18/2005 1:38:04 PM PDT by Old Professer (As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
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To: cajun-jack
especially por-SCHE Lynn and her 2 beautiful sisters, ginger and amber!!

[BLUSH]

89 posted on 08/18/2005 1:38:18 PM PDT by Snardius
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To: Snardius

Yep...... that's what I had been led to believe.


90 posted on 08/18/2005 1:39:23 PM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . The wild winds of fortune will carry us onward)
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To: Monty Python
ok, so I can blame you for staring at the screen for the next two hours.

If you keep doing that, you'll go blind...[heh]

91 posted on 08/18/2005 1:42:49 PM PDT by Snardius
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To: All

If I had the $$$ of Bill Gates, I'd give a waitress a brand new Caddy for a tip every night. Wouldn't that be fun?


92 posted on 08/18/2005 1:53:46 PM PDT by lkside
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To: monday
It's not a 4,000 dollar Porsche. It's worth at most $100. Since ANY repairs will cost more than $100 on a Porsche, and since that model has a terrible reputation for unreliability, anyone who knows the cars would be reluctant to take one even for free. I will agree that the gesture was a nice one, but not as nice as the article would lead you to believe.

I looked at a used 924 in the late 80s. Everything that I saw under the hood fairly screamed "This car overheats". I gave it a miss. Glad that I did.

Still, I hope that the young lady has a good time with whatever time on the road the thing has left.

93 posted on 08/18/2005 1:56:34 PM PDT by Riley (STOP CASTING POROSITY!!)
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To: Monty Python

Thats not bad, thats sick!


94 posted on 08/18/2005 2:13:33 PM PDT by Rose of Sharn (I get the best answers when i talk to myself!)
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To: RockinRight

Well, the porsche is not that nice, either.


95 posted on 08/18/2005 2:40:58 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
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To: Major_Risktaker

"So which silver would you drive,
Porsche, Ferrari or Bentley?"

I'll take one of each, thanks.... Oh, you meant the cars?


96 posted on 08/18/2005 2:46:37 PM PDT by monday
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