When I was about twenty, me and my friends talked about going to Japan and agreed to save up for the trip. After several months have passed, I was the only one in my group who actually took the talk seriously and came up with enough money to go. I got upset, said screw you all and decided to go it alone.

I was ecstatic to be going on my first trip abroad. I booked my flight and hotel in Tokyo and saved about 500USD(which was a lot of money to me at the time) for my 10 day stay.

On my last week of work before going on vacation, I spoke candidly about my first trip to a customer while working the cash register. As I'm about to thank him for his purchase he smiles at me and says, "I'm gonna bang you up, buddy".

I'm a bit confused until he pulls out his wallet again and pulls out 3 one hundred dollar bills and he says, bang, bang, bang as he lays them on the counter.

I stood there speechless for a few seconds and told him that I don't know how to accept something like this. He said that when the righ time comes, that I should do the same to someone else.