'Here you go...'

Here's an amusing but heartening piece of news, courtesy of The Christian Science Monitor's TODAY'S NEWS IN BRIEF (Mar. 17 issue):

Maybe I've misjudged them

As any college student can attest, it's spring break
time. You know,that annual rite in which hedonistic
rich kids flee campus for beach resorts in Florida,
Texas, and Mexico to let off steam, work on their
suntans, and imbibe vast quantities of adult
beverages ... even if they're not yet of legal age.
But in the midst of all the revelry comes word of an
incident that threatens to undermine that carefully
cultivated image of immature behavior.

As Charlotte Papenbrock tells it, she'd returned to
her parked car on South Padre Island, Texas, to find
the rear windshield smashed to pieces - perhaps from
some errantly thrown object such as a football.
Assuming a vacationing student was responsible, she
said she was "upset ... [because] there was glass
everywhere."

The retiree from Blue Springs, Mo., who spends her
winters in the warm climes of the southern Lone Star
State, telephoned police to report her discovery.
But then she noticed something else among all the
shards on the back seat - a wad of bills that she
hadn't left there. It amounted to $200 and was
accompanied by an unsigned note: "Here you go. I'm
sorry."

The cash went to repair the damage, and an
appreciative Charlotte said she wanted to pass along
a message: "Tell those kids I'm very proud [of them],
and their mothers would be, too."