Rich Man Tosses Away Dirty Bag of Walnuts Poor Grandma Gave Him, Opens It after Her Death — Story of the Day

A wealthy man’s grandmother had given him a bag of Walnuts, which he placed in a drawer. He disregarded it for some time and eventually forgot about it. When she passed away, he finally looked inside the pouch and began sobbing.

“I’m already late, Grandma. I’ll miss the flight. I’ll take it some other time,” Stan yelled as he prepared to leave. He worked as a data scientist in New York City and came home to spend the weekend with his mother and grandmother, who lived in the Texas countryside.

Stan’s father passed away when he was just five, and since then, his mother and grandmother raised him alone. When Stan was in university, he often visited them during the weekends. However, after getting a job, his visits were reduced, and he rarely came to see them.

As he prepared to head to the airport that day, his grandmother stopped him, telling him that she had a special gift for him. “See, Mom, I love Grandma, but I’m not a child! Grandma needs to understand this!” he expressed his dissatisfaction to his mother, Lily. But his mother explained to him that his grandmother would be upset if he left without accepting her present, so Stan agreed to wait.

He was, however, constantly checking his watch, growing impatient that he might miss the flight due to his grandmother. “I’m sorry, but I’ll have to leave Grandma. If I wait for five more minutes, I’ll have to take a connecting flight!” he said, collecting his luggage. Just then, Grandma Elyse came out of the kitchen.

“I’m here, yeah, take this,” she said, handing him an old handmade burlap bag full of walnuts. “You eat all those expensive nuts from the city, which are not even nice. This year we had good produce of walnuts, so I saved some for you.”

“Seriously, Grandma? You wanted me to wait for a cheap bag of walnuts? And what’s with that bag? People used it in the olden times!” Stan frowned. “I could have taken them later. Because of these stupid walnuts, I’m going to be late!”

“But honey…” Before Elyse could say anything, Stan cut her off. “Yeah, okay, Grandma! I know you’ll say walnuts are good for your brain and everything! Okay, agreed! Now let me go!” Stan kissed Elyse on the cheeks, hugged his mother, and hopped into a cab to the airport.

When he arrived home, he...