Kindness Counts

[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?

I feel sorry for you.

Because……?

This strikes me as very much #prayersandblessings

[Anonymous]

I believe the part about someone paying for something else. I don't believe OPs pollyanna versions where the woman stood there crying until OP left the register and walked with her talking about God's blessings. Or that OP works in a store in a mall where people confide in her while buying stuff beyond basic human conversation, like telling the person at checkout you're buying that bracelet for your kid's birthday.

[Anonymous]

Then the heavens opened and the angels came down singing Hallelujah

About as believable as OPs story.

[Anonymous]

Op here.

It’s all true. And I’ll leave on this note,

The woman receiving the gift was a cancer survivor. The other lady found out. It was a genuine act of kindness.

I’ve had several customers who are cancer survivors or challenged physically and kindness really goes far, especially when someone sees them and treats them as a person. Sometimes they are so down on themselves about their loss or their handicap, and a random act of kindness or nice word shared can bring tears.

It happens often in my job. But so does h/w bickering and stealing and all sorts of things. That’s retail. But it’s really nice when goodness shines thru.

In any case, let’s close this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the item?

I ask because I routinely pay of people are short on groceries, but not for lingerie.

Me again. I decided I would pay it forward whenever I could when I used my last five dollars to get a all day pass to get to dc from Virginia for my pmf interviews in 2001, not realizing you couldn't use them until 9:30. Someone just put a token (remember those) on the turnstile so I could go in. I'm now a member of the SES and I have never forgotten that kindness.

Uhhh metrorail has never used tokens. The bus did but there is no turnstile for buses?

Wow, I think you are right. I think they just let me in on their paper card. This happened to me once when I was a kid in New York, so I must be conflating it in my memory.

[Anonymous]

Aww…..
Thank you very much for sharing this lovely + selfless story w/us OP.

This story was wonderful to read about & my faith in humanity - the good in other people is restored. 💝

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aww…..
Thank you very much for sharing this lovely + selfless story w/us OP.

This story was wonderful to read about & my faith in humanity - the good in other people is restored. 💝

That emoji looks like a bikini.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here.

It’s all true. And I’ll leave on this note,

The woman receiving the gift was a cancer survivor. The other lady found out. It was a genuine act of kindness.

I’ve had several customers who are cancer survivors or challenged physically and kindness really goes far, especially when someone sees them and treats them as a person. Sometimes they are so down on themselves about their loss or their handicap, and a random act of kindness or nice word shared can bring tears.

It happens often in my job. But so does h/w bickering and stealing and all sorts of things. That’s retail. But it’s really nice when goodness shines thru.

In any case, let’s close this thread.

You’ve bid us goodbye three time now.

We still don’t believe a word you’re saying. But come back and say goodbye again. Maybe we’ll believe you then.

[Anonymous]

Anyone experienced an act of kindness since the election results? Like someone paid for your drink at Sbux??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

A few weeks ago my dd's card was hacked. I locked up her card not realizing all linked cards would be locked as well. We went to a store and I went to payand my card was declined. I was very upset because I wasn't thinking about the locked thing, then after a couple minutes I figured it out and just unlocked and paid. I could see an older person being flustered by something like this.

[Anonymous]

This is the dumbest fake story I've ever read. Are you in middle school OP?