Welcome to R-slash, a podcast where I read the best post from a cross-read it.

Today's sub-read it is R-slash-ask-read it where we answer the question,

what stranger will you never forget?

Our first reply is from Bad Panda.

When I was a broke 18-year-old trying to make ends meet,

I had a side hustle providing IT support for households,

kind of like a geek squad sort of thing.

In practice, I would mostly set up computers for elderly people in the tech

illiterate and teach them how to use them.

Or I would get them out of technical binds, usually with printers by googling on their behalf.

This elderly Korean gentleman hired me to set up his new computer form.

I spent an hour setting and up and teaching him how to use it,

and two more hours eating a wonderful lunch with a man and his wife.

He wouldn't accept my invoice for just one hour of work.

Instead, he paid three times my hourly rate for all three hours.

Then, he asked me to come back and train him the next week.

Over the course of about a month, I came back four times,

worked with him, had a lovely meal, and he would tell me about his family and his kids.

He was so proud of his daughter, who was about to finish her residency and become a pediatrician.

By the end of the month, he was pretty comfortable in the PC,

and I think him profusely for how kind he was, and how ridiculously he'd overpaid me.

He told me I reminded him of his son, who was estranged for some reason,

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