Fast Food Worker Cries After Opening Gift of Glasses So He Can Finally See Color
Seeing the world in color was something teenager Cole Williams had never experienced.
When his co-workers found out Cole was color blind, they banded together in the most heartwarming way to give their colleague the gift of new and improved sight.
It all started with Chris Fisher, assistant manager at the Sonic in Sheridan, Arkansas.
Fisher came across a YouTube video of someone being surprised with a pair of special glasses, enabling the person to see color for the first time.
He was moved by the way the glasses were so life-changing for the benefactor, and realized he could help Cole in the same way.
It was Christmas time. The perfect time of year to rally the Sonic crew together to pitch in their hard-earned money and buy Cole a $350 dollar pair of enchroma glasses.
Fisher carefully planned everything. He rigged the store’s Secret Santa game so that he wound up drawing Cole’s name as the person he’d buy a gift for.
Then, Fisher bought the glasses with the money that Cole’s colleagues chipped in. They recorded the moment the unsuspecting Cole opened the box to find his special glasses inside.
Before Cole could even slip the glasses over his eyes, he was overcome with emotion at the heartfelt gift. He began to cry, hugging his coworkers — many of them began to cry, too.
Then the moment of truth arrived — the moment Cole saw color for the first time.
The teen cried tears of joy, on sensory overload as he soaked in the depth and breadth of all the colors nature has to offer.
Cole ran inside to thank the rest of his coworkers who were busy running the store. Then he tried to figure out the mystery of who had given him this life-changing gift.
“I wasn’t supposed to know my Secret Santa,” Cole said. “But I asked one of my other managers.”
“I was like, who’s my Secret Santa?” Cole said. “And she was like, well the whole store was basically your Secret Santa.”
Cole told his manager, Fisher, the glasses were his favorite Christmas present ever. “And I got a car last year,” the teen grinned.
Cole was deeply moved that his coworkers would go through all that trouble on his behalf. “I was very shocked and I was very overwhelmed by all the joy and love I had from all my coworkers,” he said.
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