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To: mware; Peter W. Kessler
Man's Web Comment Helps Stiffed Waitress
39 posted on 11/08/2007 7:44:58 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Thanks a lot low, I tried to find that thread and couldn’t. You’re a peach.


40 posted on 11/08/2007 7:47:19 AM PST by mware (Americans in armchairs....doing the job of the media.)
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A FReeper to the rescue from the 2000 incident.

WEST PALM BEACH - Peter Kessler didn't mean to start an avalanche, but now that it's rolling, he's really enjoying the show.

A week ago today, someone posted a news story that caught Kessler's eye on FreeRepublic.com, a conservative Web site. It was about Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign entourage having breakfast at a cafe in Albion, NY, and forgetting to tip the waitress - a single, uninsured mother who makes only $5,000.00 a year outside of tips.

"My comment was, 'Gee, maybe we should take up a collection for this poor woman,'" Kessler recalled.

The comment, which Kessler posted on the Web site, took off like a helium balloon in high wind, buoyed by the power of the Internet and a puff of publicity. Sympathetic and outraged readers around the globe stuck money - dollars, kroner, yen - into envelopes and mailed them to Tricia Trupo, the stiffed server at the Village House Restaurant.

"We are well, well over $1,000 for Trish," Kessler said Thursday. He said he had never spoken with Trupo, but could identify with her.

44 posted on 11/08/2007 7:50:20 AM PST by mware (Americans in armchairs....doing the job of the media.)
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To: lowbridge

Hillary doesn’t learn from her mistakes.


159 posted on 11/09/2007 4:55:22 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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