This blog entry should be considerably shorter than my last, but I just had to tell ya'll this great little story! So all week I've been preparing with Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear (the nonprofit I'm interning at this summer) for our last big event of the summer, the Port Oneida Fair, this Friday and Saturday. Today my boss had me driving all over Traverse City picking up various items and donations all over the city that we needed for the fair. One of my last stops was back in Glen Arbor, the city near PHSB, at Cherry Republic (a place whose business is pretty much cherries and that's about it, but hey, the whole area's famous for cherries so what do ya expect? ), where I went on my way back to the office to get some donated tubs of ice cream. At this point, it's just after 6:00, I've been driving around for about 3 hours, am dog tired, and just wanna get done as soon as I can.

So when I come into Cherry Republic's cafe, I'm greeted by a friendly waiter who was extremely polite the whole time, but this is where things get cool. The guy not only was extremely friendly, courteous, and fun to talk to, but while I was waiting for him to bring up our donations, he offered and gave me a couple free cherry sodas and a delicious cherry and white chocolate oatmeal cookie!

This little act of charity was very kind, generous, and certainly the last thing I expected, and it was the exact kind of pick-me-up I needed at the end of a long, tiring day. I thank God that there are people out there like Cassidy, the gentleman who was so kind to me at Cherry Republic, and I'll continue to try and do my best to treat people with the same courtesy and friendliness that was shown to me there. I think we should all aspire to spread what little acts of friendship we can to whoever we can; sure, we'll fall short some of the time, but if there's one thing MLP's taught us, it's that we should spread the magic of friendship to whoever we can whenever we can. Hope ya'll enjoyed reading this little story as much as I enjoyed experiencing it. It certainly made my day!

A big shoutout to Cassidy and the rest of the staff at Cherry Republic; you guys run a wonderful establishment in a friendly and courteous manner!