“My lesson learned is that good deeds
pay off,” Ava Lins, 19, tells Yahoo Shine. “Do what you believe is the right
thing, and stand up for what you believe in. Only good things will come of it.”
The story began last Thursday, when
Lins, a clerk at 7-Eleven in Salem, Oregon, says she began chatting with a
customer about how he didn’t know where he was going to sleep on that freezing
night. Lins, who immediately empathized given her own recent struggles with
being homeless, gave him a small cup of coffee. “It directly influenced my
decision,” she says. When storeowner Romany Youseff appeared and allegedly
accosted the man, demanding to know if he had paid for it, Lins initially lied
and told her boss that he had. She fessed up the next day and paid for the $1
coffee herself, but, she says, she was soon fired.
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