Even in this dirty, rotten rat-infested liberal-left country of ours, there appears every now and then a story that really pulls at your heart strings. My God, there still is a good side to life! This is an ABC NEWS story:
SPECIAL POST:
Army National Guard Maj. Shawn Fulker is thousands of miles away serving in
Afghanistan, and when his wife's birthday came around, he decided he wanted to
do something very special. Josephine Fulker loves Mellow
Mushroom pizza, so her husband emailed Mellow Mushroom's corporate website
on Thursday to ask whether one of the company's Jacksonville stores could
deliver a pizza and a $50 gift card to his wife at their Jacksonville, Fla.,
home. If they could, he said, he would call the store and pay for it with his
credit card. Mellow Mushroom did one better.
Unbeknownst to Shawn Fulker, a local Mellow Mushroom franchise was working to
make his request even more memorable.
"We had the cook make a heart-shaped pizza, and then we
stopped by the nearest Publix (supermarket) to get flowers and then we picked
up balloons, just to kind of make it special," Brooke Chafee, a manager at
the Jacksonville store, told ABCNews.com on Monday evening.
Chafee and another employee of the store
made the special delivery - which included the $50 gift card to Mellow Mushroom
- in person to Fulker's home on Thursday. They didn't charge Shawn Fulker a
thing. John Valentino, the Mellow Mushroom
franchisee who owns that location and others in Jacksonville, said his store
was happy to have made the day special for the couple.
"Of course we weren't going to
charge him for anything," Valentino told ABC. "Him being a serviceman
and his wife being home. … Hopefully in her husband's absence we were able to
help her have a great birthday while he's over in Afghanistan serving our
country."
It was especially nice because Shawn Fulker had already sent his wife flowers and candy earlier that day. Since he hadn't been able to check his email for a while, he had no idea that Mellow Mushroom had been working on his initial request.
Josephine Fulker told ABC News that the even the slices of pepperoni on the pizza were cut into the heart shapes. The Fulkers have been married for seven years and have a 5-year-old son, Ethan. They were both touched by the company's gesture.
"He was just really overwhelmed with their thoughtful act of kindness," Josephine, 41, said of her 46-year-old husband.
In an email to ABC News on Monday, Shawn Fulker described how much the company's gesture moved him. "I miss my wife and son so much, and seeing that photo of them smiling at my front door brought tears to my eyes," he wrote. "When I received the email and photo from Mellow Mushroom I was sitting at my desk, and had to get up and leave the room to compose myself. I am very grateful for that moment."
He posted a summary of his interaction with Mellow Mushroom on the store's Facebook page on Thursday. "I got an email from my wife saying that Mellow Mushroom just delivered a special heart-shaped pizza along with a $50 gift card and some balloons and flowers! The GM, J.P. Morgan, emailed me and said simply 'We got you bro' … Thank you so much for this J.P., and please pass my thanks along to your team," he wrote.
As of Monday night, Fulker's post has been liked more than 65,000 times. More than 2,000 comments poured in from admiring Facebook users.
"Well done MM! Reason # 55 why you're my favorite!" Jason Schalk commented.
"What a great thing for the
restaurant to do!!!" added Tricia Robinson Tinsley.
Yes, there is hope for this country yet!
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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