As we scour our favorite sources of news and information, it’s often hard to find “feel-good” stories among all the crime and violence.  The Post has made it our mission to seek out more of the stories about the good things people in our world do.  Here is one of them…

A Houston waiter’s Facebook page has been inundated with friend requests and messages after a story of how he stood up for a special needs child went viral.

Michael Garcia, a waiter at Laurenzo’s, was serving a family who have been regulars since the restaurant opened. The family includes 5-year-old Milo, who has Down syndrome.

“Milo wasn’t being bad, he was just talking and making little noises,” Garcia told FoxNews.com. But a customer at a nearby table who was also with his family began making comments about Milo.

The customer got up from the table and moved his family to another table further away from Milo, but still in Garcia’s serving section.

Garcia said the man continued talking about Milo and said, “special needs children need to be special somewhere else.”

“My personal feelings took over because that’s ignorance in my opinion and I told him ‘Sir, I won’t be able to serve you,'” Garcia tells FoxNews.com.

The man and his family got up and left the restaurant, while Milo’s family was unaware of the incident at all.

“Maybe there were other ways I could have handled it, but Milo is such an angel, he is a gift from God as are all special needs children,” Garcia said.

Garcia did not tell Milo’s family of the incident because he didn’t want to cause them any pain. He compared his actions to wanting to shield someone and said he hopes someone would do the same for his family. Another server told Milo’s family what Garcia had done.

“We can’t lose track of what this is about,” Garcia said about the amount of attention the story has gotten.

“It is about Milo, it is about educating ourselves and when people are different, why should you treat them any different?”

“It’s fear of the unknown,” he said.

When you think of vending machines, you probably think of soda and candy bars. But around the world, vending machines are being used to sell crazy stuff.

Here’s a rundown of some of the most ridiculous vending machines out there:

• Lettuce Vending Machine, Japan
• Pizza Vending Machine, Europe
• Banana Vending Machine, Japan
• Wine Vending Machine, America
• Burger Vending Machine, Moscow
• Draft Beer Vending Machine, Japan
• Sake Vending Machine, Japan
• Live Crab Vending Machine, China
• Sausage, Eggs, Milk And Cheese Vending Machine, Germany
• French Baguette Vending Machine, France
• Canned Bread Vending Machine, Japan
• Pecan Pie Vending Machine, Texas
• Caviar Vending Machine, Los Angeles
• Live Lobster Vending Machine, Las Vegas

Here’s a story to chew on…

A 75-year-old English woman misplaced her dentures and couldn’t find them anywhere. It was around this time that she began to feel ill and started having trouble breathing. It turns out, the dentures were in the last place she thought of looking – her throat.

Nermin Keating went to the doctor complaining of respiratory problems and was diagnosed with a lung infection and put on antibiotics. But it didn’t go away. She made trips to three more doctors who checked her out and put her on more antibiotics. Eventually, she visited one more doctor who actually looked down her throat and noticed the false teeth wedged in there. Finally, the last doctor pulled the teeth out, but only after they had been in her throat for nine weeks.

In Seattle, a woman managed to beat her boyfriend unconscious – with her newborn baby strapped to her chest.

Making matters even worse is the fact that she did this in the middle of the street, for all those walking by to see.

Sharee Seminole got into an argument with her boyfriend, who is also the child’s father.

According to witnesses, the argument became physical, with Sharee stomping on the boyfriend’s face at least eight times, kicking him repeatedly in order to knock him out and breaking his nose.

When the police intervened, she became unruly and refused to cooperate despite her child still strapped to her chest.

Sharee was eventually arrested and charged with second-degree assault. The child has been placed in protective custody

What’s in an inch? Apparently, enough missing meat, cheese and tomatoes to cause an uproar.

Subway, the world’s largest fast food chain with 37,000 locations, is facing criticism after an Australian man posted a picture on the company’s Facebook page of one of its famous footlong sandwiches next to a tape measure that seems to shows it’s just 11 inches.

More than 100,000 people have “liked” or commented on the photo, which has the caption “Subway pls respond.” Lookalike pictures have popped up elsewhere on Facebook. And The New York Post conducted an investigation that found four out of seven footlong sandwiches were shy of the 12 inches that makes a foot.