Upworthy · 1 day ago

A Bagel Shop Manager Noticed a Stroke Survivor Struggling to order. His Response Moved Her Son to tears.

When Chris Leavitt brought his mother to a New Jersey bagel shop on her 60th birthday-six months after a stroke left her walking with a cane and struggling to speak-he worried about the difficulty of ordering, the noise, the watching eyes. Then manager Chris Hansen came around the counter and quietly began presenting options one at a time, letting her point, telling her "I got you." Hansen moved fluidly between helping them and other customers, never making them feel like an inconvenience, and when their food arrived, he brought an unordered chocolate pastry and insisted the meal was on the house. His parting words stayed with Leavitt long after: "What's the point of life if you can't be nice every once in a while?"