Drive Thru Disbelief!
Last week, while at my favorite Mexican restaurant's drive thru window, I paid for the person in the car behind me in the drive thru line. You should have seen the cashier's face! She actually went to get her manager to come to the window and "approve" the transaction. She had never witnessed anything like this and absolutely couldn't believe that I didn't know the girl in the car behind me!
I explained what I was doing and handed her the smile card, but she still looked at me like I was an alien or something. It is so sad that this girl had never seen or imagined something like this simple gesture of kindness. I will make sure that I do this again soon...and at the same restaurant!
- Posted by gwboocat
- May 7, 2008
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Teaching My Child a Lesson in Giving
We were at my son's elementary school helping out at their annual fundraising event. In the course of the evening, somehow my family ended up winning not one, not two, but THREE separate raffles! We were so surprised! Since I had given the raffle ticket money to my son in order to purchase the raffle tickets, I decided that this would be an excellent opportunity for him to learn the joy of doing a kind act and handing out a smile card to someone. The family at the table next to ours had been there all evening. They had purchased many more raffle tickets than we had, and, of course, they hadn't won any of the raffles. So, I let my son pick one of the prizes that we had won -- all were gift cards for restaurants that he liked, by the way. After deliberating a long time (he's an only ... Read Full Story >>
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- May 10, 2008
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