Acts Of Kindness Can Be A Piece Of Pancake
AWESOME, HOTEL, INSPIRATIONAL, TURKEY | HOPELESS | OCTOBER 11, 2018
(I go to Turkey on holiday, and the hotel has a breakfast buffet that is the same every day, apart from one item that they cook while you wait. It is always the same elderly, smiley guy cooking. A few days in, he is frying up some amazing-looking pancakes, so I figure I’ll give it a shot. They are delicious. They are so good, in fact, that we go back for seconds, and he is very happy about it. The next day, he is cooking eggs. I’m not really a huge fan, so I don’t go and take any. The day after, there’s another egg dish, so, this happens
Me: *after grabbing some eggs for my dad* “Excuse me. You wouldn’t happen to be cooking pancakes again this week?”
Chef: “Yes, pancakes in two days! You like them?”
Me: “Yes, they’re amazing!”
Chef: “Thank you! You come and get in two days.”
(Two days later, pancakes! When I go back for seconds, he asks how long I am staying and where I am from. I say I am leaving for my home in Sweden the day after, and I think that is that. This happens the next day when I am getting food from the buffet.)
Chef: *sees me and motions me over* “Good! You wait here.”
Me: “Okay?”
(I watch him cook up eggs for a couple in front of me, and then he takes out a bowl of batter from under the counter.)
Chef: “You need good last day! Long travel, yes? I make pancakes just for you.”
Me: “Oh, my God! Thank you so much!”
(My dad, who is queuing behind me for an omelette, speaks up
Dad: “That is very kind of you; those look delicious.”
Chef: *smiles at me, but then points at my dad* “Pancakes are only for her; you like eggs.”
(My dad and I both thought this was so sweet of him. I have Asperger’s, and food was a huge worry for me for this trip, since I have trouble with a lot of textures. This man made a good week into an amazing one. My dad went back about a year later, and I asked him to say hi and thank you to that man if he saw him cooking again. He did, and the chef said I reminded him of his granddaughter, and he was happy I remembered him.)