Stories of Kindness from Around the World

Pay It Forward Coffee Day


--by adoulamom, posted Jun 25, 2013
I don't drink coffee. It's not that I don't like coffee, because just the smell is heaven to me, but coffee doesn't seem to agree with my body. I can drink decaffeinated coffee every once in awhile if I'm lucky, but only on rare occasions.

So this story is not actually about me, but about my husband, who definitely drinks coffee. In fact, he drinks so much coffee that he is on a first name basis with every employee that works at our local coffee house. They even gave him a Christmas card last year with a free coffee gift card inside. Well, maybe they gave him the gift card because he's such a friendly guy. :)

Anyway, each Friday, the person behind him gets their coffee gifted to them. If there's no one behind him then the next person to walk in the door will receive the pleasant surprise. He decided to start making Fridays "Pay It Forward Coffee Day" about 5 years ago. I think this small gesture adds a little bit of happiness and kindness to our community.

One person's kindness can multiply and show up many times over in an array of different ways, if we all just take a little time for thoughtfulness! 
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moral12 wrote: Very kind of your husband to do this on a regular basis for the local, coffee-drinking community. I know it would make my day!
whitby98 wrote: It's so true how one person's kindness can multiply. I ended up on this site because a stranger in the drive-through bought my breakfast one Friday morning. I like to think I've passed on her generosity in some small way since then.
crosby2126 wrote: What a great idea..may I borrow it? I hope i am behind you in line one day!!
Bluebell wrote: Being a coffee lover lol, I loved your story. Your husband is a SWEETHEART :-) I can only imagine how many smiles and ripples of smiles he has caused in his community :-) The only thing missing is a smile card to go along with that "pay it forward coffee" :-) How about a team work, your husband provides the coffee and you the smile cards? PERFECT match :-) Love and Light and Endless Bessings, Bluebell
adoulamom wrote: crosby2126: Of course you can use it. That's the beauty of this site. We all get new and inspirational ideas from one another to use in our own communities to spread more and more love around the planet!
adoulamom wrote: Bluebell, I am not familiar with smile cards, can you please inform me about this? Thanks :)
aherdina wrote: WAIT!!! This is awesome! So… was I a ‘victim’ of this amazing Pay it Forward cause? Read what I just posted! :) http://www.helpothers.org/my/story.php?op=view&sid=22843
MakeSomeoneSmile wrote: I think that is awesome! I love that he makes it a point to do it each week. That surely spreads many smiles and is a wonderful commitment to kindness!
bluxess wrote: Perfect ... We have a saying in Tamil which goes this way: May my happiness be acquired by the world ... probably that's exactly what your husband is doing ... Awesome !
adoulamom wrote: Thanks everyone, I am new on this site and don't know too much about how everything works... I'll figure how to return karma bucks and such sooner or later. :)

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