Republican, Democrat, liberal are all subcategories to what we are experiencing,” she said. “This definitely reshaped my perspective. Then, she saw the $450 tip left on a $70 bill.
“We may come from different cultures and may disagree on certain issues, but if everyone would share their smile and kindness like your beautiful smile, our country will come together as one people. When the men left, Harris was clearing the table and saw the note first. Police say the call reporting a shooting came. “He just told me he had never experienced that kind of atmosphere before,” remembered HarrisĪccording to the Washington Post, the group hit it off with Harris, despite their differences. Hyattsville City Police responded to Busboys and Poets after multiple shots were fired in the area Thursday night. who lived in Belgium toward the end of his life Busboys and Poets, a combination bookstore, caf, bar, and poetry lounge named for black poet Langston. Harris and Busboys clearly made an impression on the men. The three men, she would learn, were all from West Texas and in Washington, D.C. The suspects walked into the restaurant and one of them demanded. Murals of Martin Luther King Jr. The incident took place at around 9:29 pm at the restaurant, located in the 400 block of K Street Northwest. Set to open this Fall, a Busboys and Poets will be the flagship tenant at the new Merriweather District in Downtown Columbia. Busboys and Poets is a restaurant, bookstore, fair trade market and gathering place where people can discuss issues of social justice and peace. “It was an interesting situation because it is a Liberal, Democratic kind of feel to the entire Busboys establishment, the people that come in, the people it attracts,” she said. Three men armed with rifles robbed Busboys and Poets in Northwest DC on Sunday, February 6, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said in a statement.
A note left for a waitress at the popular Washington DC restaurant Busboys and Poets is, in the restaurant’s words, “a lovely act of kindness.”Īccording to WUSA 9, Rosalynd Harris was working her shift at the restaurant when she sat a table of men that she would later learn were from Texas and in town to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration.