Today, the AWESOME is in Stillwater, Minnesota. Brent Cabahug, a high school senior working part-time at Walmart, quietly did something that stopped her in her tracks. An elderly woman ahead of her in line was struggling because her credit card was declined repeatedly. Dircks noticed the woman’s growing frustration and the uncomfortable tension building around her. In a post she later shared, Dircks recalled realizing something was wrong when she heard the woman say, “I know it has $300 on it.” She considered paying for the groceries herself, but before she could act, Cabahug did. He stepped away from his register, pulled out his own wallet, and paid for the woman’s groceries. “I watched the cashier walk around, pull out his wallet, and say, ‘I got it,’” Dircks wrote. “I hesitated. This young man didn’t.” When Dircks reached the register, she asked Cabahug if he had really paid out of his own pocket. He quietly said yes. She was deeply moved. “I drove home from that experience thinking, that’s exactly the children I want to raise,” she wrote. “No talk. All action.”



