Lost and Found: A Ten Dollar Bill

--by RipplesGuy, posted Jan 20, 2008

Last week I was visiting my best friend in Cincinnati. One morning as we walked to breakfast, I spotted a piece of paper on the street and it turned out to be a $10 bill! I was determined to use it as a special treat and carried it around for two days as we brainstormed ways to spend it.

Since we are both huge fans of Dairy Queen, we decided to head there after dinner on my last day in town.

His blizzard and my sundae came to $5, so when the employee handed me $5 bill as change, I turned around to the lady (and her son) behind me and said, "Here, this is for you!" Seeing her startled reaction, I told her, "I found $10 the other day and since we've already received our treat, you guys should enjoy the rest!" She was very gracious and took the money and moved ahead in the line to order treats for herself and her son.

What happened next was even more delicious!

The woman behind her had overheard the story, and she turned to everyone else in line and excitedly screamed, "That is just so cool! Did you see what that man just did?" She then proceeded to tell everyone around us what had happened. I thought that people's first reaction might be jealousy that they had not received a free treat, but instead everyone just seemed happy to have witnessed the event.

I have enjoyed every treat I have ever had at Dairy Queen since I was 4 years old, but I gotta tell you that was the most delicious sundae I have ever tasted!

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Posted by RipplesGuy
Jan 20, 2008
Comments (16)

Readers Comments

glenii wrote: That's really nice, i'm glad you brightened up someones day, and maby the people in the dairy queen do something nice for a stranger now too.

AURELIA wrote: AWESOME! Passing it on like that was perfect. Many learned a lesson from you and your good heart...that little boy witnessed something very special that will stay in his memory forever.....People talking about something good that happened instead of gossiping about negative garbage. Good For You. :) ~Aurelia

trinatooth wrote: How sweet you are...most of us would have spent the whole $10 on ourselves...but pleasure comes in many ways and I'm sure you received more pleasure from what happened than the $5 leftover wuld have given you.

Brittany wrote: that is just absolutely touching, that story. It is so nice to know that there are people like you in our world. keep up the good RANDOM ACTS!

nflowers1228 wrote: what a wonderful story. Great to share what you found and to know that others learned from it as well.

brighteyes wrote: This is another "AAAWWWWW" story....

Needed a PM pick-me-up and your story and your kindness did it....THANK YOU!

Hope many of those in line and the cashier at DQ are inspired to keep the kindness momentum going ....

smoothsugardoll wrote: generosity has a wonderful taste doesn't it God bless

joyjoy wrote: How great ---wouldn't it be nice to declare a National Pay it Forward Day! Its nice just to IMAGINE :-)

akbj wrote: That is just the coolest story. Thank you for sharing it.

treeflowerpuzzle wrote: It's simple acts like this that change the world.That was very nice of you to do that.

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