Man leaves waiter $100 tip after learning he sold blood to pay for Kindle

BEAUMONT, Calif. (WLS) -- It's natural to start a conversation with your waiter when you're the only one in the Denny's at 4:30 a.m.

A man in California said that was the scene that set up his conversation with a waiter in his 50s about the waiter's newly purchased $120 Kindle Fire.

"If the conversation ended there he would have had some company and a 5 dollar tip," the customer said.

Instead, the waiter added, "Well, it really cost me five and a quarter pounds of blood." The waiter told his customer he'd literally sold his blood for one year to buy his new e-reader.

"As he turned to walk away he mentioned he might just go out on a limb now the price is going down to buy his mother one seeing how much she loved his," the customer said.

So the customer decided to leave the waiter a $100 tip to help buy the waiter's mother a Kindle, too.

"I am posting this because of how good I felt doing it!" the customer wrote on Facebook. "Do something this Christmas season too for someone else. I promise you it will be one of the better Christmas gifts you get!"