The Touching Moment a Missouri Waitress Got the Tip of a Lifetime
It was all caught on tape.
— -- A waitress' commute to work will now be an easier ride thanks to a generous couple's tip: a car.
Gary and Roxann Tackett of Quitman, Arkansas, surprised Cindi Grady, a waitress at a Cracker Barrel in Branson, Missouri, with a silver 2008 Ford Fusion on Nov. 29. to replace her dilapidated Hyundai Accent.
"I was totally shocked," Grady, 51, told ABC News. "I don't expect. ... I never thought in my wildest dreams that someone would ever give me a car that nice."
The Tacketts first noticed Grady's vehicle this summer in the driveway of Cracker Barrel the few times they ate there. The blue Hyundai had a banged up hood held down by a strap. The frame was bent with the driver seat side window shattered and covered in plastic wrap.
The couple, upon realizing someone was driving the car, asked a hostess at the restaurant for the name of the owner.
![PHOTO: Cindi Grady's old car is seen in this handout photo.](https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/HT_waitress_car_1_sk_141209_4x3_992.jpg)
"It was almost like someone had abandoned the car," Roxann Tackett told ABC News. "You just notice things like that."
The Tacketts, who own a hardware store called Central Arkansas Tool Supply in Quitman, found out that the car belonged to Grady and the restaurant told them that Grady was a hard worker just trying to make a living for herself and her disabled son.
The couple then set to work finding her a more "dependable" car, eventually purchasing the Ford in November for $2,500.
"After finding that she's a good employee, and that she has a disabled son, we thought, 'Okay, we can help her,'" Roxann Tackett told ABC News.
![PHOTO: A first generation Ford Fusion is seen in Fort Washington, Md., in this undated file photo.](https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/HT_ford_fusion_sk_141209_33x16_992.jpg)
Grady told ABC News that she is grateful to the Tackett's whom she called "nice, god-fearing people" and loves her Ford.
"It's nice knowing when I wake up that I don't need to worry about my car car starting," she said.