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The best part about the holidays? Surprising people
One of the sweetest people I met Friday: Linda Spence, 50, of Riviera Beach, who waited all day Thursday outside Best Buy in West Palm Beach to buy her 13-year-old daughter a laptop.
To pass the time, Spence smoked cigarettes and read three romance novels, including A Seduction at Christmas. When she had to go to the bathroom, she walked to a neighboring gas station while family members held her spot in line.
Spence managed to keep her daughter, Leslie, in the dark about what she was doing.
"She's going to scream and squeeze me like a cat," Spence said
