Did you do a RAoK today, or recently

I made a thread a few weeks ago asking our fellow ATS family to do a random act of kindness for a stranger during this holiday season.

I’m not trying to self promote or brag here or anything. I just want to inspire others to do the same.

But today at the grocery store there was an old lady with a Walker getting ready to put her goods on the conveyor belt.
As mentioned, she was old, and small, a bit hunched over and struggling as it was.
She had all her stuff piled up on her Walker.

I saw she was going to have trouble lifting her case of water onto the belt so I said let me get those for you.
I put all her stuff on the belt for her and she thanked me for helping her.

The cashier rang her stuff through while I watched the old woman struggling to bag her own stuff.
She opened her wallet and I didn’t mean to, but I noticed she had a $100 bill and a $5 bill.
The cashier told her the total was $40.55.
The old woman pulled out a large magnifying glass and looked at the $100 bill she pulled out, I guess to make sure she was paying with the adequate amount.
And that was all I needed to see…

I got close to her, told her to put her money away and that I was going to pay for it all.
It was beautiful to see her face light up. I could tell she was smiling under her mask and she said, “No, no your not!”
I said “ Yes, oh yes I am” and I turned to the cashier and I said I’m going to pay for her stuff.
The woman pulled me close and hugged me and said out loud “this is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.”

I said back to her “I certainly hope not! You deserve so much more”
The cashier, a young girl, pulled out her phone and took a picture of the woman hugging me.

I could tell the woman had walked to the store. She was all bundled up because there’s about a foot of snow on the ground here.
I asked the woman, are you going to be okay pushing all that stuff home on your Walker. It’s real slippery and slushy outside.
She said she would be just fine and she lived nearby.
I was going to offer her a ride home as well.
And I know that can be dangerous this day and age, but I had my 13 year old daughter with me, plus I just paid for her stuff, so I’m sure she knew I wasn’t a threat.

She reassured me she would be good to get home, and she thanked me once again and said I hope you have a very merry Christmas.

Now, like I said, I’m not bragging, but I do hope to inspire others to do a random act of kindness for someone.
And I try to do at least one a day. At this time of the year, a little can mean the whole world to someone.

I was thinking about the woman on my drive home and turned to my daughter and said remember how she said me buying her stuff for her was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for her?
I really hope that she only said that out of shock and that a $40 gesture of humanity really wasn’t the nicest thing ever done for her.
I then told my daughter, you need to always respect your elders. They have been through a whole lot over their years and probably deserve a break as often as possible. Always try to help others. We are lucky in this world.
She smiled and said I know dad.

Please, share your random act with me.
I want to read about it.
Or maybe someone did an act of kindness for you, and your in debt one random act of paying it forward.
Let’s hear it and spread some cheer!

Kindness is in our heart
The thought of kindness is of one with a strong heart of common sense
I like your post because it does show the 7 colors of a rainbow

I am not going to brag.
But , yes .
Last week .
I try to do something good for someone as much as I can .
Believe it...
or not.

a reply to: Gothmog

It’s not bragging. It’s inspiring to others.
Please, tell us what you did.

"Little random acts of kindness can change this world into a better place no matter how small" The magic man told me this. I still do.

bull#.

its nice to be nice.
but nice people dont brag on the internet about how nice they are....

It’s not bragging. It’s inspiring to others.

you sound like a pychopath.

a reply to: Macenroe82

Don't want to brag, but am rather generous with compliments.

Was mugging this guy once, and told him he had nice shoes.

Just my size too...

Hmmm. I can't remember if I did a random act of kindness to anyone in the last three weeks. I was friendly to others out in public like I usually am, but the only places I went were to the grocery stores and to go get our half cow. I don't know what a random act of kindness is, saying hi to people and depositing some change and bucks into the salvation army bucket with a person sitting next to it is just normal to me, I usually donate when I go by them. To me that is just a way of life. I thank any workers who give me assistance in the stores if I need their help, that is just me being polite, I don't consider that an act of kindness.

I am not going to give one of those people on side the road money when I drive out of the store parking lot, I have known people who did that around here that got their beer and drug money by doing that over the years. How do you tell a con from someone who is really in need. I talked to a panhandler in Vegas working downtown. He dressed down to go work at night because he made more money begging than he would make at a job. His kid was in private school, him and his wife owned a house, and his night job paid for all of that. His wife had a job that paid decent, back in 2000, when I chatted with him, he said between his job begging and his wife's job during the day, they made over sixty grand a year. I also talked to two homeless people who stayed in homeless shelters during the day because nights were full up. They were eating their nachos, they were working people now, not bums is what they said. They handed out pamphlets for the brothels and made enough so they could enjoy buying some food from the nacho stand and other fast food joints, they could pass on the free meals at the kitchens so those who needed it could get served. They had bus passes and rode the city busses half the night to stay warm. Nice guys. The other guy who made a lot was nice too when you got to know him. He was actually honest, he said he does not lie to anyone just asks if they have an extra five bucks so he can get a coffee. He was working for a living and said lots of the people panhandling in vegas use the money for drugs and gambling problems. I did give that guy a cigarette, and one for the road, I told him he made more than I do, and he said lots of people do well there, he knew the two security people at the door at the casino pretty well, when I came out they were talking about restaurants that were having the best specials if I remember right.

I have known a lot of people over the years that took advantage of the system, I am talking hundreds of people. I also know people who were on Welfare and worked for cash at restaurants or worked for cash for contractors. Some collected benefits and did full time odd jobs at the same time. But I still respected those people who were on welfare plus still doing cash jobs, they often could not support their families on what welfare would give them.

Be kind to others all the time, if you are kind to others, they are usually kind to you too. But beware of scammers, they are all over these days, years ago there were way less numbers of them. Also you have to watch for thieves this day when stealing is considered normal.

a reply to: Rikku

Sorry you feel that way.
I hope you can find happiness within yourself.

Sorry you feel that way.
I hope you can find happiness within yourself.

yes. but without creepy freaks like you.

originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: Gothmog

It’s not bragging. It’s inspiring to others.
Please, tell us what you did.

I noticed a lady and her young son outside the store as I was going in.
The sign said , I need help with rent .
I said , I don't have cash to give (not lying, I never carry the stuff)
I purchased what I needed, got in the car , and headed home.
Then I realized that was not like me.
Turned around , drove to the bank , and withdrew some money .
Turned back again , drove to the store and gave it to her.
Round trip ? about 20 extra miles.
The feeling I got ?
PRICELESS .

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originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: Gothmog

It’s not bragging. It’s inspiring to others.
Please, tell us what you did.

2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do

originally posted by: stosh64

originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: Gothmog

It’s not bragging. It’s inspiring to others.
Please, tell us what you did.

2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do

This is why people hate christians, arrogant, judgemental and self righteous
I would even guess you probably don’t even identify as a Christian but still get all preachy at others with your out of context warbling? Why?

originally posted by: Raggedyman

originally posted by: stosh64

originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: Gothmog

It’s not bragging. It’s inspiring to others.
Please, tell us what you did.

2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do

This is why people hate christians, arrogant, judgemental and self righteous
I would even guess you probably don’t even identify as a Christian but still get all preachy at others with your out of context warbling? Why?

Ummm…WOW…

Talk about preachy…and judgmental…


You ever notice that when peeps are attempting to illustrate an example…they too often exhibit themselves as the illustration…

It’s such a perfect illustration of human kinds life in the glass house…

Priceless…



YouSir

originally posted by: Rikku
bull#.

its nice to be nice.
but nice people dont brag on the internet about how nice they are....

It’s not bragging. It’s inspiring to others.

you sound like a pychopath.

Ummm…sounds like someone is feeling a wee bit guilty…about not paying anything forward this last month…

S okay…we all get that guilt…often causes one to lash out like that…

Just another one o human natures dichotomous…quirks…


The gifts…they just keep on giving…and giving…and giving…



YouSir

a reply to: Macenroe82

Very cool.

On a side note, I'm always amazed at when a celebrity posts something, they may get thousands of reply's, but the one they fixate on is the mean one. I cringe a bit when I see it as they are already a celebrity, and could/should just ignore the mean one, and focus on the normal ones. But then, not being a celebrity, I don't have that problem.

Merry Christmas brother and you are doing it right by teaching your daughter by what you do, not just what you say. Believe me when I tell you, that's how you make those lessons stick.

I'm currently getting shamed by my 7 year old grandson for calling other drivers stupid. He informs me that's a bad word, and if I say it, why can't he. "Because I said so" is only going to fly a little longer. I suppose I need to do better.

a reply to: YouSir

Well if a person is going to use a biblical verse to attack someone, seemingly out of context
Happy to point out the faults

Going to guess the op isn’t a christian, no reason they should follow the bible
Pretty sure Stosh isn’t a christian, so, using the bible?

Bible bashing non believers by non believers, interesting.

a reply to: Gothmog

Exactly!
And I bet you could see the relief in that woman’s face when you gave her that money.
Great job!

a reply to: network dude

Thanks bro!
I’m happy you said that about my daughter, because setting an example for my kids and being the best person I can be, everyday, is exactly what I’m hoping to achieve, Helping others and giving back.

This Christmas morning, we’re going to the local old aged home, and giving gift bags to the elderly that have no one on Christmas. My company set it up and paid for everything.
But we get to be the lucky ones to hand the stuff out.