Charles Barkley Is A Good Guy
July 22, 2008 by Mike
What is not to love about Sir Charles ? He loves to drink, party, gamble, golf, and visit strip clubs. Honestly, no one alive may have a better life than Sir Charles. Hugh Hefner is close, but the sports, golf, and gambling outweigh the Playboy bunnies. Now, comes the story about The Round Mound of Rebound helping out a college kid, who had to put his education on hold and work as a busboy to save up money to go back to college:
He’s worked as a busboy for eight years at Saloon (750 S. 7th), where he struck up a friendship with one generous regular at the Italian restaurant who volunteered to pay his Temple tuition.
During a visit to Saloon last summer, Charles Barkley asked Abate how he was enjoying teaching, and was disappointed to learn that Abate had still not returned to Temple because of problems securing financial aid. Abate, 28, of South Philly, started at Temple in 1997, months after graduating from St. John Neumann High.
Sir Charles told Abate he would like to help him with his tuition, and Abate wasn’t sure how to respond. Barkley didn’t give him much time, telling Abate that he had the length of Barkley’s meal to decide. Abate wisely accepted.
“He’s a nice kid,” Barkley said of Abate on Friday. “He was working with kids, I loved that he wanted to be a teacher, and I wanted to help him,” Barkley told us by phone between stops on a flight to Reno where he was making a speech.
When we joked to Barkley that people were going to be calling him today asking for money, he said “People always call me asking for money, and Christian never asked, which is why I wanted to help him out.”
Now, if only the Wynn Casino could get their money this easy.
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