The tale of the Eisenhower Dollar!

The tale of the Eisenhower Dollar!
This afternoon I am feeling kind of hopeless and laying on the couch feeling alone, not lonely mind you.  I can say I very, very rarely feel lonely.  I needed to buy cream for my coffee and having only Eisenhower coin dollars I had received as tips years ago, I went to Wawa and took two of the dollars with a quarter I found at the bottom of my purse feeling full of self pity for the situation I have gotten myself into.  Knowing nobody uses them anymore and the cashiers usually look at them and have to think about them a minute.  I walk up to the register feeling very uncomfortable spending them.
I just know that everyone thinks, 'she is spending them cause she is broke.'  True I am broke, broker than I have ever been, with no where to turn for help. The cashier rings up my cream, all the time chatting with another girl that works there, not really paying attention to me until I embarassingly had her the two coin dollars and the one quarter. 
Feeling mortified that I had to spend those dollars. 
I hand her the coins and she becomes very excited and stated 'oh, I have to buy these for my mother! She will be thrilled!'  She was so happy to have them to make her mother happy about those two coins. 
With that one statement my glum mood lifts and I am reminded of the time years ago when I would go to a table after I had waited on a very kind couple and there would be an  'Eisenhower Dollar.'  I can still see the couple like it was yesterday and in actuality some twenty plus years have passed.  They were kind and easy to serve as I went through my day in the diner I worked.  I can remember we all wished we would get the couple just so we could get the very large coin, because as a waitress we would not spend it.  It was one way we could save.
In that very minute as I walked out of Wawa with my cream I went from feeling broke and poor, and embarressed, to feeling hope and happiness.  Happy because I made her feel so very happy. I was actually smiling as I left the store picturing the look on the cashier's face as she hands them to her mother.  The look of pride on her mother's face for the great child she has raised!
 My walk felt lighter and I felt as if a million pound weight of gloom and doom has lifted off my shoulders.  No, none of my problems have been solved!  No, I did not sell anything on eBay which I so desperately need to do! No, I did not find the three hundred dollars I need to have before Monday comes!  No, nothing in the physical world had changed at all!  What did change was my outlook on how I see things and I loose the hopelessness I felt before I went to buy a simple pint of cream for my coffee!  The self pity and aloneness I felt before I drove that simple mile to the store! 
Sadly, the cashier will probably never know how her reaction changed my entire day. Reminded me to have faith in the midst of the darkness and to know the Universal order of things always knows what we need when we need it the most.
Follw the link this http://myworld.ebay.com/spovio to look over my eBay merchandise and maybe buy a thing or two to help me make my three hundred dollars I need by Monday.
Thank You for listening.