A Wisconsin waitress was given a Christmas morning surprise by a customer — a $1,000 tip.
Callie Blue was waiting tables at Gus's Diner in Sun Prairie, just outside Madison, at 6am on Sunday when she started chatting with one of the few customers in the restaurant at that hour, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. He left her a $1,000 tip.
The customer was Michael Johnson, president and chief executive of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County. He told the newspaper he was looking for people in need as part of the club’s Pay It Forward campaign. Two donors had given about $5,000 for tip money.
He had been sent an email about Ms Blue and visited the diner to measure her customer service skills and demeanour.
He was impressed enough to pull $1,000 from the $5,000 tip money. He said about 12 servers got big tips as part of the campaign but Ms Blue got the biggest one because it was Christmas morning and she was the last recipient.
Ms Blue said the tip was amazing and that she would use it to buy food for her four horses.
Christmas celebrations around the world — in pictures
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Celina Alas, 8, talks to the Grinch in Las Vegas. AP -
Migrant children at a shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, who are waiting to apply for asylum in the US. Reuters -
The traditional Christmas lunch for those in need at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome. Reuters -
A man collects coins from a fountain on Christmas Day in New York. AP -
Christmas Day ice skating in Central Park, New York. AP -
A Legio Maria of African Church Mission procession in Siaya County, Kenya. Reuters -
The Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Kryvorivnia, Ukraine. Reuters -
Ukrainian singer Kolia Cerga performs for soldiers near the front line in Donetsk. Getty -
A shop selling Christmas decorations in Iran capital Tehran. AFP -
The Christmas festival at Annai Velankanni Shrine in Chennai, India. EPA -
A Syriac priest leads Mass at the Virgin Mary Syriac Orthodox Church in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Reuters -
The annual Christmas city race in Skopje, North Macedonia. AFP -
Pope Francis delivers his Urbi et Orbi message at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Reuters -
Dogs wait for Britain's royal family before the Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham. AFP -
Queen Consort Camilla and King Charles III arrive at the Norfolk church. Getty -
The Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea. Getty -
Pope Francis celebrates Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Reuters -
The Pope conducts the Mass. AFP -
Christmas Eve on a street in Islamabad. AFP -
Jason, 17, sells Santa Claus costumes at St Patrick's Cathedral in Karachi, Pakistan. Reuters -
The Three Wise Men at Christmas Eve Mass at the Vatican. Reuters -
Diver Fachri Hariansyah, 26, at the Sea World Ancol aquarium in Jakarta, Indonesia. Reuters -
Father Firas Dardar at the Syriac Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart in Basra, Iraq. AFP -
Christmas Eve Mass at the Legio Maria African Church Mission in the informal settlement of Mathare in Nairobi. AFP -
Hospital staff dressed as Santa Claus in Pasig City, Manila. AFP -
Christmas at a shelter in Mexico City. Reuters -
The Christmas service at the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea. Getty -
Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads Mass at Saint Catherine's Church in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. Reuters -
A man dressed as Santa Claus at his shop in Miami, Florida. AFP -
The Santa's Enchanted Forest attraction in Miami, Florida. AFP -
A child dressed as an angel attends Mass at the Mother Teresa Cathedral in Pristina, Kosovo. AFP -
Midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. EPA -
Bishop Philippe Christory celebrates Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres in France. AFP -
Nuns celebrate Mass at the Crusader Church Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh, Israel. EPA -
Egyptian Donciel Maykel Nasr, 5, at Saint Joseph's Catholic Church in Cairo. AP -
Christmas Eve Mass at La Merced Catholic church in Panama City. AP -
Children at the Christ King Church in Colombo, Sri Lanka. EPA -
The Christmas Eve family service at Faith Community Lutheran Church in Las Vegas. AP -
A Catholic Christmas Eve Mass at St Antoine Church in Istanbul. AP -
A Ukrainian soldier gives out presents next to a military vehicle decorated with Christmas lights in Sloviansk. Getty -
Christmas Eve at St George Chaldean Church in Baghdad. Reuters -
Glen Hansard, Gavin James and Danny O' Reilly busk on Grafton Street in Dublin. PA -
Putting up decorations at the Rock Church in Dandora, Nairobi. AFP -
Martyr square in Beirut. AFP
