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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeson" data-source="post: 8889421" data-attributes="member: 16253">At Christmas we're allowed to put cards in with the newspaper so the customer has our information if they want to send us a tip. This is my first year with this paper. I'll just say I more than doubled my best year at the previous paper this year. Today I got a card in the mail from a customer that had a smaller envelope with it. Most people send cash, checks, or gift cards. I got seeds in this one. The envelope was a standard mailing envelope that had written on it:Amazing seeds for your garden. Stand back. I have no idea what kind of seeds they are. I know the customer has lots of flowers growing in her front yard. I figure they're some kind of flower. It's an unusual gift. It's an outside the box kind of thing. I'm not complaining, I think it'll be a story to tell. Maybe they're magic seeds. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🧙‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f9d9-2642.png" title="Man mage    :man_mage:" data-shortname=":man_mage:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🧙‍♀️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f9d9-2640.png" title="Woman mage    :woman_mage:" data-shortname=":woman_mage:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />I asked my manager what the strangest tip was she had ever gotten. I said if it's the tip of their <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🍆" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f346.png" title="Eggplant    :eggplant:" data-shortname=":eggplant:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> (I used the actual word) I don't want to know about it. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😂" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" title="Face with tears of joy    :joy:" data-shortname=":joy:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> She told my a great little story. A customer she had been delivering to for 15 years gave her a coin from another country. "I'm 90 years old, and I have no one to leave this to. It's my lucky coin, and I want you to have it." Sometimes people are amazing. You never know what's going on in their lives. I don't know what the seeds are, but I'm going to find out. I'm going to plant them. I'm sure the flowers will be beautiful. I hope they're a type that comes back every year. It'll be a reminder of that customer. Maybe next Christmas she'll have a different type for me.</blockquote>

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