Luc Perreault isn’t so good at blending into a crowd. The 280-pound tattoo-covered biker was making a pit stop at a coffee shop in Alberta, Canada when a chance encounter left the gentle giant with hurt feelings and something to say.
Inside, he caught the attention of a little girl who wanted to say hello. When Perreault replied to the girl’s sweet introduction, her mother ran over and grabbed her by the hand. She hurried her daughter off, telling her that they didn’t talk to “dirty bikers.”
This broke Luc’s heart…So he responded to the woman’s rude comments in a Facebook post later that day. And to his surprise, his response immediately went viral.
“Yes I am a big 280 lbs guy with motorcycles and full of tattoos, I am a welder, I am loud, I drink beer, I swear and I look like I would eat your soul if you stare at me wrong,” he wrote.
What you don’t know is that I have been happily married for 11 years, my kids call me daddy, I am a college graduate, my mother is proud of me and tells everyone how lucky she is to have such a wonderful son, my nieces and nephews are always happy to see there m’noncl Luc, when my daughter broke her arm I cried more than she did. I read books, I help people, I go out of my way to thank war veterans and I even cried at Armageddon…..
So next time I smile and say hi to your little girl, and you grab her and tell her, ‘No, no dear, we don’t talk to dirty bikers,’ remember that even though you hurt my feelings, this [‘dirty biker’] would be the first person to run into your burning house to save your little girl’s goldfish so she wouldn’t be sad!!!!
This is an important reminder to never be quick to judge others! So, hopefully, the woman he saw that day was able to view his post.
Hopefully, Luc’s post will teach the right people that it’s never okay to make assumptions and that you should always think before you speak. Behavior as shown by the woman in Tim Horton’s is simply unacceptable.
Source: AWM
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