Waitress shocked by $1, 000 Christmas tip

(CNN) — A Wisconsin waitress worked Christmas Day just like she does every year, but this year she received an unexpected gift — a $1, 000 tip!

Callie Blue a waitress at Gus’s diner in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin said working every Christmas is something she truly enjoys, even the early mornings.

“I got here and opened the restaurant and Michael Johnson, who is the CEO of Boys and Girls Club of Dane County walked in. I talked to him about 45 minutes, I did not know who he was, this was his first time here and he tipped me a 1,000 before he left,” she said in disbelief.

Johnson said he pays it forward every year.

“I was a kid who didn’t really like the holidays because I grew up in the projects and my mother didn’t have much. So, it was a holiday that I struggled with,” he explained.

Now every holiday season Johnson tries to make people’s holiday special.

“We gifted a car to a family of five. You will see that over the holidays we delivered toys to over six hundred kids and their families. We took families on shopping sprees…” 

Johnson also had some extra time to stop by Gus’s Diner in Sun Prairie and give Blue the largest tip she has ever received.

“At first I thought it was a total joke and then I realized that it was real and I was, I cried, it was shocking and I am very thankful for it,” she added.

Blue said Johnson made her Christmas very special, but more than that, she said it also changed her view of the world.

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