Two men ordered food and drinks, laughing quietly at their table. When I noticed they had left without paying, my coworker immediately broke down in tears. The bill was several hundred dollars, and she lived paycheck to paycheck. Covering it herself wasn’t an option. Without thinking, I ran outside into the freezing night, no jacket, heart pounding. I spotted the two men walking quickly toward their car and shouted, “You didn’t pay!”
One of them stopped and turned around, looking shocked. For a moment, I expected them to run. Instead, he walked back toward me, his face pale. “I’m so sorry,” he said. “My brother just received terrible news, and we weren’t thinking clearly. We weren’t trying to skip the bill.”....
