Dear YWN,
A frum boys camp in Upstate NY finished the first trip yesterday (Tuesday). The boys who arrive for the second trip arrive today (Wednesday). Since yesterday was an “in-between day”, the camp took the campers who are staying the full summer on an outing for pizza.
One group of boys went to a pizza shop in Woodridge and the other group to a pizza shop in Monticello.
When it was time to pay in the Monticello pizza shop, the chaperon pulled out the check that camp gave him and was stunned when he realized that it was written for the competitors shop.
He was in a bind.
He had a bill of almost $700 and had absolutely no way to pay for it.
Suddenly out of nowhere, an anonymous donor pulls out a checkbook and wrote the pizza shop for the full amount!
Mi Kemacha Yisroel!
(YWN Sullivan County Newsroom)
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Amazing! But what happened in the other pizza shop?
I challenge the editors of YWN to post more of these types of stories.
We read so much doom and gloom, we forget that most of is generated to create fear and stop us from thinking or using common sense.
It bleeds it leads. The happy stories make us feel that we can be liros tov.
Am echad b’lev echad!
Kol Hakovod to the person who paid the bill. However, I am not sure that the use of the word “competitor” is correct. For those who don’t know that part of NY, Woodridge and Monticello are approximately 10 miles apart (taking Route 42). I don’t know if the owners would say they are competitors. It’s like sending one group to shop at Aron’s in Queens and the other to Glatt Gourmet in Cedarhurst (11 miles apart).
Wonderful story but how could a bunch of bochurim staying for the 8 weeks eat roughly 35-45 pizzas? The anonymous baal tzadakah must have left a really big tip.
Seems a bit strange. The camp could of easily called in with a credit card # (or send the camp driver with a new check). We pay enough for our children’s camp tuition. The camps are not a tzedaka case. Why would some stranger have to make a donation for the camp? There are serious nitzrachim in our communities, not some for profit sleep away camp. Something doesn’t add up with this story.
i agree with Notgettinginvolved. I can think of hundreds of better uses for $700 of Yiddishe gelt rather then footing the bill for lunch at a camp whose parents already covered the cost. Will the camp now shell out the $700 on some other extra unplanned outing? Maybe divvy up $700 among them and credit each of those kids’ canteen accounts? I hope so, but the skeptic (realist?) in me thinks not.
I can’t imagine the bill was $700 maybe more like $70.
Pizza doesn’t necessarily mean “Pizza only”. French Fries, soda etc. Also…how many people were there?
Something not making sense here chevra…
@$700/$5 a head, that 140 campers. Which upstate pizza store can handle that volume for lunch?
Nice letter to the mailbag but needs some backing.
It’s not only about tzidaka, it’s beautiful to see someone sensitive to anther not being embarrassed.
Have you ever been to Fialkoff’s? And you numbers may be off ($5/person) or the $700 may be an incorrect amount.