Free Pastries & Free Wine

Yesterday morning, my friend and I went and visited Val’s Bakery, which you may remember I featured in a post earlier last year. It was her first time there, so I was glad to introduce her to such a nice spot. We bought a few pastries each to take home with us, got some coffee, and sat and talked for about an hour, at which point they were closing up shop. We were packing up our things to leave when one of the workers asked us if we wanted any pastries for free, otherwise they were all going to get tossed (after the other workers took whatever they wanted to take home, too). We were so surprised to be offered free pastries, but they told us to take literally as many as we wanted, so we pretty much got one of everything for each of us. We felt so lucky! It was only because we were the very last ones in the shop that we got such an awesome opportunity. After we walked out with all our free pastries, two people came up to Val’s and went to reach for the door before seeing that they had…