Starbucks barista gets help from state trooper when she couldn't find childcare

Balancing work and motherhood can be a challenge, so when one North Carolina Starbucks barista found herself without childcare before her morning shift, the kindness of co-workers and customers willing to help out made her day a whole lot easier.

Shantaphae Blakes, who works at a Winston-Salem location of the coffee chain, called her supervisor, Harper Spell, at 4:30 a.m. in tears because she didn’t have anyone to look after her daughter Dilynn.

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“[Blakes] said, ‘I have Dilynn in the back seat. Would it be OK if I came?’ I just said, ‘Don’t worry about it. I need you here. We’ll take care of Dilynn,” the 21-year-old manager told Today.

Once at work, 26-year-old Blakes set the baby carrier on a nearby table so she and Spell could watch Dilynn during her shift. But Spell told Today she was worried how long the baby could stay happy and safe during the morning rush.

Luckily for them, when their regular customer Brad Marshall, a North Carolina State Trooper, heard about the situation, he offered to help.

“He stayed for over an hour. Never in a million years did I think that (a trooper) would just do that, just stay and hang around and help,” Spell told Today.

Blakes was touched by his kindness and relieved to have the extra help in caring for her young daughter.

“It just blew me away. It was wonderful,” she told Today in tears as she recalled the story. “It shocked me. It made me feel so much better. It takes a village to raise a child,” she added.

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“Trooper Brad and one of his fellow partners were outstanding in making sure we could still get our job done and even had a little fun with it. He even bought her a cup that she had been holding on to all morning,” Spell wrote about the situation on Facebook in a post that had received nearly 2,000 likes as of Wednesday afternoon.