Positivity: Waitress gets $50,000, car from cranky Texan
‘I still can’t believe it,’ Luby’s cafeteria worker says of bequest
Updated 9:37 p.m. ET, Fri., Dec. 28, 2007
For nearly seven years Melina Salazar did her best to put on a smile and tend to the every need of her most loyal and cantankerous customer.
She made sure his food was as hot as he wanted, even if it meant he burned his mouth. And she smiled through his demands and curses. The 89-year-old Walter “Buck” Swords obviously appreciated it, leaving the waitress $50,000 and a 2000 Buick when he died.
“I still can’t believe it,” the Luby’s cafeteria employee told Harlingen television station KGBT-TV in an interview during which she described Swords as “kind of mean.”
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