Awesome!
We should start a “good things I did for complete strangers” thread!
And then send it to a news outlet to prove that all hope of humanity isn’t lost.
Why is it that these “I helped a stranger” stories are always, ALWAYS about picking up a stranded motorist? Anyway, my stranded motorist story is when I picked up the soccer player and took him to a concert at a bar, bought him a drunk, and let him crash on my couch.
I wish somebody would buy me a drunk :(. I always have to go out and get my own.
Or you have to make them at home from scratch.
At the Dollar Tree the other day a lady was in front of us and asked my husband to hold her place while she went to look for something else. It finally became “our” turn, (hers) and since she hadn’t come back we put all our stuff on the belt. Just then she came back, but instead of being pissed (with some people, they would think you’re inconviencing them instead of the other way around) she told us it was fine. She was buying lots of “little goodies” and said they were for the patients at the nursing home where she worked. She said the other people she worked with weren’t interested in having a party or really celebrating with the folks, but she couldn’t understand how people could not feel the joy of making someone else happy.
When the cashier had rung up our stuff I turned and gave her a bear hug, and told her that some people did appreciate how much she cared.
My brother died in a nursing home at age 55. And some of the people who worked there made him smile.
(Sorry I’m posting again so soon.)
I sent my cousin an afghan I’d made, because she let slip that she and her boys aren’t exchanging gifts this year. (Not enough money.)
In the box I put a note:
EVERYBODY gets a present at Christmas.
Santa said so.
He could have had a phone that died, hence my question. Save the snark for someone who cares.