ANGOLA, Ind. (UPI) -- Paying for college got a whole lot easier for Indiana waitress Jessica Osborne when one of her regular customers recently slid her a $10,000 tip.

Osborne, 20, says she lost her breath on a recent Friday when she opened the envelope the customer gave her and saw all the zeros after the $1, ABC News reports. It was amazing, said Osborn, who works at the Pizza Hut in Angola, Ind.

The customer, who asked that only her first name Becky be used, said she recently had received a large settlement following the deaths of her husband and eldest daughter in a traffic accident and she wanted to do something special for the pleasant young woman who waited on her family.

She was sweet and bright and cheerful and never complained, Becky said. She was just a sweet waitress.

The money couldn't have come at a better time. Osborne has had financial troubles that had forced her to withdraw from college. Now she will be able to use the textbooks she had kept in the trunk of her car.

It's unbelievable. It doesn't happen to people every day, she said. I mean, I work at Pizza Hut!




Copyright 2007 by United Press International

Just goes to show that hard work and politeness pays off in the end!!!

yea i remember seeing that. and i thought that was cool... but just think she could had even used that money towards something else. but she had that person in mind and thats shows what a good heart and soul she has....

i give her a thumbs up/ how often do you find a rich person that would just throw money away..Nada!!

my mothers a waitress and they do deserve stuff like this to happen more.. ya anyone can go to burger king and get a burger but it is different to have someone wait on you and if they are good at it and polite and not just jerks then they deserve recognition.

what movie had the same plot or threreabouts?

well lucky her.i just quit my job as a cab driver for a so called friend.yes politeness,honesty DO pay.but not from satan.

Fuzzy...It Could Happen To You...a not so bad Nicolas Cage flick...lol

Lucky girl....I wonder if she'll have to declare it on her taxes...LOL