LEARNED WE WERE NOT THE CIRCUS 
When I was a teenager, some opportunity was with my father standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. In the end, there was only one family between the window and us. This family was very impressed. There were eight children, all probably under the age of twelve. You could see he did not have much money. The clothes were not expensive, but they were clean. The kids were well educated, all did well the row, two behind their parents, holding hands.
talked excitedly of the clowns, elephants and other numbers that would be that night. You could tell they had never been to the circus.
promised to be an outstanding event in his life. The father and mother were in front of the group, standing proud. The mother, her husband's hand, watched him as saying: "You're my knight in shining armor." He smiled, filled of pride and looking like answering: "You're right." The employee at the counter asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He replied proudly:
"Please give me eight tickets and two adult children."
The employee told him the price. The woman let her husband's hand, cocked his head and the man's lip began to twitch. This came a little more and asked: What did he say? ". The will employ repeated the price.
How could I turn around and tell his eight kids that did not have enough money to take them to the circus?. Viewing what happened, Dad put his hand in his pocket, pulled out a twenty-dollar bill and threw it down.
(We were not rich at all).
My father reached down, picked up the bill, tapped the man on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, sir, you dropped this from his pocket." The man realized what was happening. I had not asked for alms, but certainly appreciated the help in a desperate, anxious and uncomfortable. She looked at my father straight in the eye, with both hands took hers, pressed the twenty dollar bill and with trembling lips and a tear rolling down his cheek, he replied:
you, thank you sir ...!
"This really means a lot to my family and me. "
Dad and I went back to our car and drove home.
That night we went to the circus, but we left with nothing ...
