- Courtney Crawford was dreading celebrating first Mother’s Day after her mom’s death
- But a customer’s kind gesture means he’s finally able to buy an urn.
A Starbucks worker has made a heartbreaking appeal to track down a customer whose small kindness helped turn the Mother’s Day she was dreading.
Courtney Crawford starts work at 4 a.m. in Little Rock, arkansasThe Branch – which was a favorite spot for mom Tammy before her tragic death cancer In June last year.
Early in the morning, an angry customer handed a note to management saying Courtney had ‘made a difference’ in his day and gave the barista $200 to ‘treat herself’.
Courtney finished her shift by recording a TIC Toc Saying that this money would eventually allow him to buy an urn to bring his mother’s remains back home in time on Sunday.
Crying, she said, ‘Thank you for the impact you have had on my life, and I hope you look at this and know that you did something I will never forget.’
More than 3.8 million people have watched the TikTok Courtney Crawford recorded shortly after her life-changing makeover at a Starbuck in Little Rock.
Courtney said mother Tammy (left) was her best friend and worked at the same Little Rock branch her mother visited before her death last year.
The 32-year-old woman works three jobs to cover the bills, but that doesn’t stop her from being ‘miserable as hell’.
She posted, ‘This morning I was loud, proud and excited and a lady came in and I could tell she was struggling and I was like a little extra pep in my step, we got to see her smile today’ ‘
‘So we did that and a few minutes later she came in and gave a note to my manager and asked my manager to hand it to me.
‘It says “I travel a lot for work which usually means late nights and very early mornings.
‘I’ve been here for two days and so far, you’re the only person I’ve met who’s actually kind. This morning I saw your face for the first time, and you really brightened my day.
‘I’m sure you’re tired because, life, right? That’s all of us. But you deserve to know that you made a difference in someone’s day today by being kind.’
The woman who signed herself ‘Groggy at 5am’ suggested Kourtney ‘treat yourself something nice, I can tell you deserve it, maybe not just coffee, ha ha!’ ‘.
He said, ‘Do good in this world and it will always come back to you.’
Courtney says she is a ‘happy’ person and decided to use her skills to cheer up a ‘sad’ customer when she arrived at 5am.
Kourtney said she was ‘dreading’ first Mother’s Day after her mother died from cancer
Courtney (pictured as a child) was the eldest of Tammy’s six children
‘And I’d be lying to you if I told you I wasn’t dreading Mother’s Day,’ she told TikTok
“The Starbucks job comes on top of my full-time job because I have a lot of bills to pay and a lot of debt I inherited,” Kourtney said.
‘And I would be lying to you if I told you I wasn’t dreading Mother’s Day.
‘And so I decided I would buy the vase I’ve been eyeing and bring it home to my mom for Mother’s Day.
‘And I didn’t know how I would afford it.’
Courtney was the eldest of Tammy’s six children and says she considered her mother her best friend.
Addressing her customer directly, she said: ‘The $200 you put in that note today will allow me to spend Mother’s Day with my mom and I appreciate you very much for that.
‘So if you’re out there and on TikTok thank you for the impact you’ve had on my life and I hope you’ll look back and know that you did something I’ll never forget.’
The video has been viewed 3.6 million times on the platform and sparked a nationwide search for the Good Samaritan after it was picked up by producers at CBS.
“If she ever has a day where she thinks she doesn’t matter or she thinks she has no impact on the world, I would love to remind her that yes, you can,” Kourtney told CBS Mornings. We do.’
‘And you will never stop making an impact on the world because I will be able to look at my body every day and smile because my mom is looking at me.
‘If you’re in Little Rock, if you can come back to Little Rock, if you’re anywhere in the world and you want to be recognized and found then I want to find you.
‘I want to hug you, I want to be able to show that your small moment of kindness has created an effect of beauty and I have to thank you personally for it.’