re: watching a local story go viral

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So the kid tried to buy cookies for a police officer (weird)

The police officer allows a teenager to buy him cookies (weird)

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I don't see the offer or the acceptance as weird. I've bought coffee for cops and military in line before. I've also bought for people who didn't have enough money or correct change or whatever. It's a cup of coffee or a cookie or a Coke not a mortgage payment or a car. It's just civility, a nice gesture, something we all could use a little of especially the following customer.

Kid just did something he thought was nice and got reprimanded for it. Over a cookie. Mom may have been a bit overboard, as many mothers tend to be but nevertheless it's a fricking cookie. If I'm that polite kid, I'm politely telling them I'll find another job since I wouldn't want to work for anything with Great American in the name that would not allow me to act like a great American.

Over a cookie. Hello 2017.