and I thought I would share with everyone.......I'll try and keep it short.
I work at a motorcycle shop in a small town.Our service manager's name is Tony.One of his high school friends is in the Reserves and had just recently come home from his second trip to Iraq.He had come by the shop to see Tony and also to look into possibly getting a little dirtbike for his boy for Xmas.We'll he came back into the store yesterday to tell Tony that he could not afford to get the bike and that he was also going to be going back to Iraq for the third time by the end of the month, so his son was probably not going to get much for Xmas this year, cuz money was going to be too tight for the next several months...
So he says goodbye and walks out the door.As soon as he does, another customer walks over to Tony and says that he overheard their conversation and was wandering wich dirtbike he was looking at what the price of it was.So Tony points it out,tells him how much it is, and walks off to get this customer's 4-wheeler out of the service shop.When he comes back to the counter, this customer hands him a check for the dirtbike.He says,"Don't tell that soldier who I am, I want to remain anonymous.Tell him thanks for his service,and being out on the front line.And Merry Christmas!"
We were all just blown away! For real.We didn't know what to think.It took us the rest of the day to track down Tony's friend.We finally ended up calling the school where his son was at and talked to the teachers about what was going on.When he came to pick up his son after school, the teachers told him he had a dirtbike waiting for him up at the shop.About 6 teachers came down with him to see him pick it up, and let me tell you, he was just SPEECHLESS!He couldn't beleive it.It was so cool, we were all just smiling from ear to ear...................
We gave him a helmet and some gear for his boy to go along with it, loaded him up, and watched him drive off...
Man, I wish that would happen every day. It was really cool! -Joel
I work at a motorcycle shop in a small town.Our service manager's name is Tony.One of his high school friends is in the Reserves and had just recently come home from his second trip to Iraq.He had come by the shop to see Tony and also to look into possibly getting a little dirtbike for his boy for Xmas.We'll he came back into the store yesterday to tell Tony that he could not afford to get the bike and that he was also going to be going back to Iraq for the third time by the end of the month, so his son was probably not going to get much for Xmas this year, cuz money was going to be too tight for the next several months...
So he says goodbye and walks out the door.As soon as he does, another customer walks over to Tony and says that he overheard their conversation and was wandering wich dirtbike he was looking at what the price of it was.So Tony points it out,tells him how much it is, and walks off to get this customer's 4-wheeler out of the service shop.When he comes back to the counter, this customer hands him a check for the dirtbike.He says,"Don't tell that soldier who I am, I want to remain anonymous.Tell him thanks for his service,and being out on the front line.And Merry Christmas!"
We were all just blown away! For real.We didn't know what to think.It took us the rest of the day to track down Tony's friend.We finally ended up calling the school where his son was at and talked to the teachers about what was going on.When he came to pick up his son after school, the teachers told him he had a dirtbike waiting for him up at the shop.About 6 teachers came down with him to see him pick it up, and let me tell you, he was just SPEECHLESS!He couldn't beleive it.It was so cool, we were all just smiling from ear to ear...................
We gave him a helmet and some gear for his boy to go along with it, loaded him up, and watched him drive off...
Man, I wish that would happen every day. It was really cool! -Joel
