This Maryland cashier’s positivity turns strangers’ mornings around

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — At Bagels ‘n Grinds, caffeine is not always the thing waking people up in the morning. Sometimes, it’s Rob Hawkins.

“Yesss let’s go!,” he exclaims from behind his register.

The booming greetings, improvised rhymes, and relentless positivity have made Hawkins something of a local legend inside the College Park bagel shop just steps from the University of Maryland campus…

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