Bus Riders Get Christmas Gifts From Mystery Woman

A mystery woman Spokane, Washington hopped aboard buses, greeted passengers with "Merry Christmas" and handed each an envelope containing a card and a $50 bill before stepping off and heading for another bus.

She did it so quickly that descriptions of the woman varied among surprised passengers. "She kind of kept her head down. I don't remember ever seeing this lady before", said bus driver Max Clemons.

"I had a young man in the back of the bus. He looked like he was going to start crying", Clemons said.

The Transit authority spokesman Dan Kolbet said they had not been able to identify the woman so far. She gave envelopes to about 20 passengers, he said. Each was sealed with a sticker that said: "To a friend from a friend".

The woman pulled the envelopes out of a cloth satchel and handed them to riders. The buses were pulling away from stops before riders even knew what happened.

"There was a lot of excitement. People were making calls on their cell phones", said another driver Terry Dobson, who had two of his trips visited by the mystery woman. "The people on those buses really needed the money".

Hours after the impromptu gift-giving, Dobson still couldn't believe it.

"It was just a neat thing," he said. "It makes you tingle all over".

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