Last month, during the cold spell, Paloma Robles, a manager at a McDonald’s at Vista Ridge Village in Lewisville, received an unusual knock at the restaurant’s door.
“I said, ‘Sir, the lobby is closed, but the drive thru is open,” Robles recalled.
“We picked this man up from under the bridge and said we need a place to get warm and something to eat,” Doug Evans, the man who knocked at the door said that he stated to Robles.
Evans and his wife, Kyli, had been driving close by when they observed a man struggling in the cold.
“I couldn’t even believe it. I said, ‘Is that somebody sitting on the side of the road?’ The human heart in me could not allow somebody to just sit outside in 12-degree weather, so I just wanted to do something,” stated Kyli Evans.
When they got to the McDonald’s, Robles let them inside.
The owner of the McDonald’s stated that even when he has come to up to the locked door, they don’t even let him enter.
But, whether it was intuition or not, Robles opened the door.
“I needed to help him. I would not let him be outside in the cold,” she commented.
When they entered the fast-food restaurant, Robles found out that the man’s name is Derrick Mounter.
Prior to being homeless, Mounter was enrolled in college, studying graphic design, desiring to become an animator.
He said that he doesn’t have a problem with drugs or alcohol but landed on the streets after a break up and a major car accident.
“I prayed to God every single day, ‘God, please help me out of this situation,” Mounter stated. He said that he continuosly looked for employment, only getting two cents sometimes when people passed by him.
After disclosing all of this to Robles inside of the McDonald’s, Robles offered him a job to which he immediately began to weep.
“She knew that I had something better to live for, and she didn’t want me to be in this situation anymore,” Mounter added.
Now, Robles says that Mounter has been an excellent employee, arriving to work at least 15 minutes before his scheduled shift everyday.
The entire team has made him feel like family.
“If we took the time to actually be more compassionate, that energy would help the entire universe,” said the owner of the store.
“It could change the world,” Evans added.
“I think you’d find a lot more Derricks,” Kyli Evans remarked.
Bravo