Caseys General Store

This Casey’s showed what small town hospitality and customer service is all about.
The ladies who work here go beyond the call of duty and it is done with a smile and positive attitude.
As seen in my Savvi review, we were in need of safety pins in the middle of rural America and Casey’s was the only store we found. I parked to the side of the building and ran in to see if they had a travel sewing kit for sale. Brad was still stressing in the car. They had nothing with safety pins for sale. We were totally out of luck. Or were we? Not here in Aviston, IL.
One of the ladies looked at me and said, «Someone having a wardrobe malfunction?» I told her yes, not a bad as Janet Jackson’s, but we were having problems and didn’t want to leave our friends wedding. As luck would have it, her daughter happened to be in the store too. This lady who had never seen or meet me before sent her little girl home to get a bag of safety pins out of her sewing box.
While the little girl was gone, I went back in to get cups of ice so we could fix drinks out of our cooler. I was so happy they were helping me get safety pins I gave them a $ 1 for ice. The other worker looked at me and laughed and said, «Ice don’t cost that much.» here’s your change. I told her to keep it and they refused.
The little girl (I’d say she was 10 – 11) returned on her bike with a bag of safety pins of all sizes. I went back to Brad in the car and began to use all the skills I learned doing costumes in theater. Pants were pinned well enough to give him through a reception as long as he didn’t get out on the dance floor.
When I went back inside to return the unused pins, (I did keep a few extra in my pocket just in case we had a relapse) I presented the young girl with a $ 10 bill for her kindness running home on her bike. She, like her mother said, «No thank you, I am just paying it forward and you do the same.» Wow, that was amazing to hear from a 10 year old. I told her I believe in paying forward and I still wanted her to have the $. I suggested doing something nice for someone else with it, she gave in and took the $.
On the way home, we stopped again to say thanks and buy some sweet treats for the ride home. They say there is nothing like southern hospitality, but I think the country folks are even better.