After overhearing her informing other diners about the impending birth of her first child, a South Jersey police officer left a server who was pregnant a $100 tip on his $8.75 bill.
On Friday, the Voorhees Township officer went to the Lamp Post Diner in Clementon, New Jersey, where Courtney English, 23, who is about eight months pregnant, was serving the lunch crowd, and ordered a salad and a glass of water.
The policeman left her a message after becoming a father himself, saying, “Enjoy your first.” You won’t forget it easily.
He may have heard us talking when I told the other clients that I was expecting my first kid and that I was about to quit my work. On Monday, English spoke with The Post.
English, who has sporadically worked at the cafe for the past two years and is due on April 1, said, “One of the cashiers told me he left me $100 and I started weeping.
Brian Cadigan, English’s father, was so touched by the officer’s thoughtful act that he shared a photo of the receipt and a message of appreciation on Facebook.
“What a fantastic individual to not only leave a VERY substantial gratuity, but a lovely message, I don’t know you Mister Police Officer, but you made my young child weep, and made her year,” he said of the Voorhees’ Finest member who has insisted on anonymity.
Although I’ve always had the utmost respect for police officers, you went above and beyond to also be a wonderful person. God’s blessings are upon you.
Cadigan alluded to the “wonderful gesture” to The Post.
Her entire year was altered by that. One police officer went above and above to provide a friendly offer merely to say, “Hey, it’s your first, and enjoy it,” despite the fact that there are many terrible things stated about them.
“I just received a $100 tip from this kind officer who left me a letter for the kid,” she claimed when she reached me.
The father of the child, her ex-boyfriend, is still “totally supportive,” but according to Cadigan, his daughter, who is single and lives with him in Sewell, “works her butt off” to make ends meet.
After Kayleigh’s birth, English, who received her GED from Rowan College in 2015, plans to take a sabbatical for six to eight weeks.
She said she planned to eventually pursue a career as a nurse.
The restaurant’s owner, Nick Hionas, said the story demonstrates that there is still “hope in humanity.”
He reportedly told The Post on Monday that it is excellent. The officer just delivered birth, and he just referred to it as the best day of his life and something he will never forget.
Hionas, 39, described English as a “happy-go-lucky, kind child who goes above and beyond.”
Good things happen to those who have that kind of thinking, he continued.
