Customer With Cerebral Palsy Struggled To Feed Himself At North Carolina Restaurant Until Waiter Stops And Helps Him

Nov 19, 2019 by apost team

A waiter at a seafood restaurant in Raleigh, North Carolina stopped to help an honorary marine with cerebral palsy who was struggling to eat his food. The kind act was later posted on social media where it went viral, now both the honorary marine and the waiter are advocating for the importance of treating people who have special needs with kindness. 

Lee Bondurant was "touched" when a waiter by the name of Five offered to help him eat his food at the restaurant he was dining at. Bondurant has cerebral palsy and it is difficult for him to use his hands, his mother was trying to help him eat earlier on in the meal and also feed herself. 

"He casually came over and asked Lee if he had ever had oysters," Bondurant's mother, Linda recalled to ABC News. "Lee told him he had not. So, [Five] asked [if he] could he serve him his first. It was smooth not to embarrass Lee. Just offering [to] share in the experience."

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Linda snapped a photo of the kind act and posted it to Lee's social media page where it went viral. The post read: 

"When you dine at 42nd Street Oyster Bar please ask for a server by the name of "FIVE" (a college student) He saw me trying to eat and help Lee," Linda wrote. "He insisted on helping showing Lee total respect. Let's me know there are still decent and compassionate people left in our country. Pay it forward for FIVE!"

Five who is a college student and working to help pay his tuition doesn't have social media. He believes when he helped Lee he was just doing the right thing. The manager of the seafood restaurant told ABC News: 

 "In regards to the story, Five has been overwhelmed with the attention, as he was just doing what he thought was the right thing to do. We are beyond fortunate to have so many loyal and caring staff members. It makes it so easy to come to work every day, as you can imagine."

Lee told the news station that to see the act of kindness from someone like Five in the world is a hard thing to find. Lee also hopes that people learn how important it is to treat people with special needs "with respect and kindness, not pity."

Linda said, "They are 'normal' on the inside, [They] have the same feelings we all do."

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