Random Acts of Kindness
 

While humankind should partake in random acts of kindness year round it seems that the holiday season brings out the giver in us.

So I give to you this challenge:

Beginning today and ending never, partake in a random act of kindness. It can be as simple as letting a person with one or two items (compared to your 10) infront of you at the store or as complex as buying someone(s) a cup of coffee at your local coffee place or a meat at a local eatery. Anything you consider a random act of kindness.

There's no need to post what you do but if someone commits a random act of kindness to you feel free to share.

How about throwing an extra quarter in the tip jar next time.. it really does add up! :)

LOL

This is a great idea. :)

I think people do tend to forget that we all live in this world together and sometimes and that it isn't all about 'me'.

Egads, even as simple as letting someone cross the street. I have done this and the cars behind me have freaked out. Being courteous is even rare, it would seem.

Return your shopping cart to the holding area or to the pile of carts at the front of the store.

I take pictures of the pets I'm sitting and leave a print for my clients on occasion.

Take in the neighbors transh cans after trash has been picked up.

Let the asshole into your lane.

Wave at neighbors you see outside.

No kidding about the shopping carts. I swear, people become more lazy every day. Inconsiderate, too. Not only can it take up a parking spot but it can roll and slam into someones car. Totally uncool.

LOL about the asshole. So true.

Oh man. Wave to my neighbor? That is a tough one.......I'll try.....

So many little things to think of......

Bake cookies for your co-workers

Offer your seat not only to the older person but to the person with the baby or child, person with the heavy bag etc...

Last "Season" I was leaving Targret. A couple 2 cars down from me had bought a TV that would not fit in their compact car. It was cold. They were talking about his leaving her there and he would come back with the truck. She didn't want to have to stay and wait for him because it was dark and cold. The looks on their faces when I offered up the back of my Blazer was priceless. She rode with me and we followed him to their house. They even tried to pay me. It gave me the bestest feeling, knowing I had helped them.

When I shop I try to park near a cart return area. It makes it sooo much easier. It also gives me a bit of extra walking, which I desperatly need.

Pull the sweatpants out of the ass crack of the lady in line in front of you at the store. You know she wants to do it herself but there are too many witnesses.

Just remember, if you get to her thong, you've dug too deep.

Hug a consertative.

MG,

Your story reminds me of the random act of kindness that was done to me. I was out with Flubber buying a couch for my house and we discovered that the couch would not fit in the back of my Explorer. We started considering pushing it back to my house when a guy with a truck offered to take it over for us. We tried to pay him, he just said pay it forward. :)

oh thats just lovely. I just spit coffee all over my monitor.


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good one

Isn't taking in your neighbor's garbage cans technically theft? What do you do with them? Release them into the wild?

I'll wave at the people on the other side of my neighbors. I have a firm policy to never get sociable with my direct neighbors since it would be too weird if we didn't like each other.

Since I'm essentially a shut in these days I don't get many opportunities to commit random acts of kindness (though if you set out to do it, is it really random?) so I'll count closing the blinds when I'm naked. I'm sure the neighbors appreciate it greatly.

I can't respond to you, Alex. I'm just laughing to hard. I have a picture of freed trashcans cavorting outside your bedroom window while you stand butt naked watching them. I am so very disturbed!

But is he tweezing?

I had a random act of kindess instilled on me today.

I've been enlisting a co-workers help to locate an inexpensive PDA via CraigsList to see if I would actually use it before buying an expensive one. We've encountered a series of flakers when trying to purchase the PDAs we locate. I gave up on finding one, figured I'd buy one during the X-mas sales.

I come into work today to find a PDA on my desk. It seems my co-worker found a PDA he forgot he had. :)

I showed a lady at Target where the ornament hooks are hidden. I swear they don't want us to buy ornament hooks at Target for some reason.

Is that random enough? Or is putting loose change into a pig more random?

Wow, I've been really random today.

I had a random act of kindness bestowed upon me this past week... I have had Car Troubles of late, and am still experiencing them, though not as severe. One of my clients/friends was so irritated by the ineptitude of my repair shop that he conferred with a fellow Honda mechanic, figured out what might truly be wrong with my vehicle, then picked it up from my workplace and took it to his shop. He put over $200 worth of new parts and several hours worth of labor in to it, then returned it to me. He didn't want anything for it, but finally relented and let me pay for wholesale costs on parts only, so the guy is getting one year of free haircuts and wholesale on prods from now on. My car is much happier and I am not as broke as I could be, knock on wood....

I plan on paying it forward. :)

Sent a secret, unmarked Xmas card to a friend in need, with a couple of $100 bills tucked inside.

I love this idea BtD!

Although with traffic being as it is here in the DC area, I know I'll have to do a major redo of my attitude driving, the ratio of $$a holes on the road to good drivers is 100 to 1. But I will try to be better and it will improve my attitude, I make no promises. ;)

Donna

One of the things I like to do is carry stamps in my wallet. I'm in the post office 3 or 4 times a week, and often there is someone behind me in line (and usually elderly for whatever reason) who is dismayed at the long line and the fact that they only want one stamp. I just give 'em a stamp & save them the horror of the USPS lines.

Thanks Snowflake!

I was at the grocery store yesterday and they had two lines open. Four people with multiple items let a lady with one item infront of them. YAY!