A Waitress Was Sad She Was Poor So A Couple Gave Her $10,000

KTLA - It’s not every day you get a 200% tip. For Hawaiian waitress Cayla Chandara, that was only the beginning. Chandara, 22, struck up a conversation with a friendly Australian couple last week at the Thai restaurant where she works in Waikiki.

They got to talking and she mentioned her 80-hour work weeks, student loan, and how she could barely make ends meet. “I told them I moved here for school, but I was kind of in a little bit of debt and I couldn’t go back to school, because I couldn’t afford it,” Chandara tells KHON.

The couple paid their $200 tab and left. Then Chandara got the surprise of her life: a $400 tip. Stunned, Chandara set out to find the generous customers.

“I never get tipped that big,” she says. “I had to say thank you.” The pair had mentioned where they were staying, so Chandara raced to their hotel. She followed up with a thank-you card, dessert, and flowers, and figured that was the end of it.

Then the next day she got an even bigger surprise: the Aussies returned to the restaurant with an offer to pay off Chandara’s loans of more than $10,000. She declined at first but eventually accepted, reports the Honolulu Civil Beat.

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So you mean to tell me I can move to Hawaii, drop out of school, get a job on the beach, and then have all my loans paid off? Sign me the fuck up! What a life for this Chandara chick. Couldn’t hang, got a job to pay the bills, told a little sob story, and now is living the dream. It’s almost as if everyone college student in the world isn’t living with 80 dollars in their bank account. Back in my day if you wanted to pay off your student loans you had to do it the old fashioned way like going on a payment plan or selling a ton of tshirts. Now apparently you can move to paradise, serve daiquiris on the beach, and cash a $10,000 check from naive Aussie visitors.

Also, many people are saying she got a little more than “just the tip” when she went to their hotel, and I think that is mean and wrong to even suggest. Completely unfounded in evidence. Don’t even put that thought in your minds, you savages.