A mystery man posed with two Girl Scouts in Greenville, South Carolina, after buying all of their cookies.
(Kayla Dillard)
A group of Girl Scouts selling cookies outside of a store in Greenville, South Carolina on Friday was pleasantly surprised when a man gave them $40 for seven boxes and told them to keep the change. But then he returned to their table with another jaw-dropping offer.
The man, who has not yet been identified, told the girls to "pack up all of [their] cookies" and head home.
"I'm taking them all so y'all can get out of this cold," he said with a grin.
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Kayla Dillard, the cookie sales manager for Troop 1574, and the scouts were speechless after the man handed over $540.
“We were all in total shock."
“We were all in total shock," Dillard recalled to Yahoo Lifestyle, noting that he bought at least seven different kinds of cookies including the popular Thin Mints and Carmel deLites.
Dillard said the girls scrambled to calculate the man's total and gather all of the boxes together. Afterward, the mystery man paused to pose with two of the girls who were wearing Brownie uniforms.
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The Greenville woman later took to Facebook to praise the man's kind act, sharing the happy photo with her friends.
"What an amazing soul!!!!" she gushed in the caption.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the post has received nearly 10,000 shares and hundreds have commented — applauding the man for his actions.
"What an awesome guy well done sir those girls will always remember this," one woman wrote.
"There is still a God and kind souled peoples in America! Thanks sir," another echoed.
"That is just precious!!" a woman exclaimed.
Several locals have been hard at work trying to name the man, but Dillard said his identity still hasn't been confirmed.
“He mentioned he owned several businesses,” she told Yahoo Lifestyle. “We assume he was going to give the cookies away.”
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