When I was a kid at middle school I was in the canteen at lunch picking up some food and noticed a cheese batch just next to the main trays.
I asked if I could have it and the dinner lady smiled, said of course and gave it to me. Every other day I would greet the same dinner lady, make small talk and I would ask "are there any cheese batches left?" and she would grab one and give it to me whilst smiling.
Years later when I was grown up and saw her again in our village I found out that cheese batches weren't available on the school menu, she had been making them for me specially because she knew I liked them so much.
Currently in college, this same thing happened to me earlier. I always get the same thing, two cheeseburgers, then go to the shop and get a bag of KitKats. Not only does the guy at the burger counter know me, but the lady at the shop yesterday had extra KitKats she had stored because they were out otherwise, and she knew I always got them. Best feeling ever.
Awe lunch ladies are the best! Our lunch lady got it into her head that I liked canned peaches. Each day she would replace my dessert with canned peaches. While I would have loved a cookie, it made me feel so special that someone noticed me and the peaches were delicious.
When I graduated high school I gave her a scarf I made and she gave me a can of her home canned peaches. They had been homemade all along and that was why there were so good. I still think of her whenever I each peaches and smile. Thank you Mary, you were the best at making us all feel seen.
This made my well up in tears. Reminds me of the canteen ladies in my school who gave me lunch for free because they knew we were poor. Teachers are the first role models i had in life
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u/Timidhobgoblin 8h ago
When I was a kid at middle school I was in the canteen at lunch picking up some food and noticed a cheese batch just next to the main trays.
I asked if I could have it and the dinner lady smiled, said of course and gave it to me. Every other day I would greet the same dinner lady, make small talk and I would ask "are there any cheese batches left?" and she would grab one and give it to me whilst smiling.
Years later when I was grown up and saw her again in our village I found out that cheese batches weren't available on the school menu, she had been making them for me specially because she knew I liked them so much.