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
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.
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. 💝
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?
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.