Kindness Counts

[Anonymous]

“As the customer left the area, I walked with her and said to her that sometimes God works in mysterious ways, and to just thank him for her kindness in offering up the gift.”

It’s really gross to exploit the emotions of other people just to spread your religion. It’s akin to brainwashing and is a form of abuse/exploitation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“As the customer left the area, I walked with her and said to her that sometimes God works in mysterious ways, and to just thank him for her kindness in offering up the gift.”

It’s really gross to exploit the emotions of other people just to spread your religion. It’s akin to brainwashing and is a form of abuse/exploitation.

I don’t that I’d call it abuse but I do think it’s weird to take an act of human kindness and attribute it to supernatural forces.

[Anonymous]

This reminds so much of those evangelism tales.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This doesn't seem like a believable story. Like the woman hung back crying so you could ring up the person behind her and then you just left the register to walk with the crying lady and tell her about God's blessings?

Yeah. This didn’t happen. At least not in Moco. Maybe in the Midwest or the south where people are nicer but this did not happen in the DC area. Nice try troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn't seem like a believable story. Like the woman hung back crying so you could ring up the person behind her and then you just left the register to walk with the crying lady and tell her about God's blessings?

Yeah. This didn’t happen. At least not in Moco. Maybe in the Midwest or the south where people are nicer but this did not happen in the DC area. Nice try troll.

Its the description of the store that's also so off for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing. Kindness counts, but the lady who paid got scammed. I’m super glad if you and she feel super swell about it all. Maybe these people will meet cute later on, and become BFFs as the reminisce about the time when….

Her money would have been better placed helping people that she wouldn’t share space with. But because this was a well dressed woman who felt like an equal, she feels super great about being kind! Nothing that she would feel about getting scammed by one of those unwashed, soup begging poors in the other thread.

I suspect many are going to come to this thread and pat the payer on the back in this thread, while putting the OP in the other thread down for helping the crazy and soupless. The fact is, the other OP also abused a privileged position without realizing how much damage and exploitation of a vulnerable person her donation may have let to.

And come on, you talk about God and the like… is the Message really to help the rich at the mall, or the truly downtrodden?

Op here. I disagree with you on this. I witnessed the whole transaction and it was genuine.

The lady who could not pay was attempting to pay thru other means. At the end of the day, it would have been an item that she could not afford, no sale, and she would have left empty handed.

The women who was gifted did make efforts to repay her gifter, and the gifter really did not want to accept repayment.

It was sincere.[/b] I have names. [b]

I’m sorry that you feel so jaded in life that every transaction appears to be stoked in greed or misgiving.

Sure you do. In your imagination where this story occurred.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn't seem like a believable story. Like the woman hung back crying so you could ring up the person behind her and then you just left the register to walk with the crying lady and tell her about God's blessings?

Yeah. This didn’t happen. At least not in Moco. Maybe in the Midwest or the south where people are nicer but this did not happen in the DC area. Nice try troll.

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Its the description of the store that's also so off for me.

Or the tearful lady shopping with her credit card, apparently knowing it had been hacked? She could have gone and gotten cash

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“As the customer left the area, I walked with her and said to her that sometimes God works in mysterious ways, and to just thank him for her kindness in offering up the gift.”

It’s really gross to exploit the emotions of other people just to spread your religion. It’s akin to brainwashing and is a form of abuse/exploitation.

I don’t that I’d call it abuse but I do think it’s weird to take an act of human kindness and attribute it to supernatural forces.

It’s abuse because they swoop in whenever someone has their guard down due to some surprising/life changing event. It’s a transaction where they offer support in exchange for being allowed to preach. They go after addicts, homeless, teen mothers, orphaned children, military vets with ptsd. Like vultures.

[Anonymous]

Where do you work? Your description of your workplace is very odd

[Anonymous]

OP here. Amazed at the responses here. Some of you are so jaded and linear in how you think.

I’ll just say that I work at a Mall and it’s in a department where these two ladies were both shopping for items.

The item in question was about $150. The other lady couldn’t figure out how to get her PayPal credit to work, and wanted to call her son to figure it out. I saw the credit, but I could not her her find the QR code.

She kindly asked that I help another customer while she figured it out with her son, but the gifting lady saw all of this and swooped in to ask if she could pay for the item.

Originally, the recipient refused the charity, but the gifter insisted.

I’ll just leave it at that. If you shop nearby in a MoCo mall, that’s the location.

That’s it. Some won’t believe it, but it happened. And I guess for those of us who just happened to say nice things to others when something good happens, I made reference to the gift as a blessing.

Good day.

[Anonymous]

This sounds like one of those lame Chicken Soup for the Soul stories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Amazed at the responses here. Some of you are so jaded and linear in how you think.

I’ll just say that I work at a Mall and it’s in a department where these two ladies were both shopping for items.

The item in question was about $150. The other lady couldn’t figure out how to get her PayPal credit to work, and wanted to call her son to figure it out. I saw the credit, but I could not her her find the QR code.

She kindly asked that I help another customer while she figured it out with her son, but the gifting lady saw all of this and swooped in to ask if she could pay for the item.

Originally, the recipient refused the charity, but the gifter insisted.

I’ll just leave it at that. If you shop nearby in a MoCo mall, that’s the location.

That’s it. Some won’t believe it, but it happened. And I guess for those of us who just happened to say nice things to others when something good happens, I made reference to the gift as a blessing.

Good day.

Nobody believes it happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing. Kindness counts, but the lady who paid got scammed. I’m super glad if you and she feel super swell about it all. Maybe these people will meet cute later on, and become BFFs as the reminisce about the time when….

Her money would have been better placed helping people that she wouldn’t share space with. But because this was a well dressed woman who felt like an equal, she feels super great about being kind! Nothing that she would feel about getting scammed by one of those unwashed, soup begging poors in the other thread.

I suspect many are going to come to this thread and pat the payer on the back in this thread, while putting the OP in the other thread down for helping the crazy and soupless. The fact is, the other OP also abused a privileged position without realizing how much damage and exploitation of a vulnerable person her donation may have let to.

And come on, you talk about God and the like… is the Message really to help the rich at the mall, or the truly downtrodden?

I feel sorry for you.

[Anonymous]

Not buying what you're selling op.

[Anonymous]

Yawn. Sure this happened OP.