This happened just yesterday to me! A woman with three young kids in tow was in front of me in line at the grocery store. She didn’t have enough to cover her cart and it was abundantly clear she was buying food for Christmas (a turkey, some canned food, and a bit of fresh vegetables) and started putting canned food back. I asked if I could buy her items and she reluctantly agreed and thanked me. I’ve always wanted to have a reason to pay it forward like this. I hope they enjoy their Christmas meal!
My husband & me were at the grocery store recently & there was this old lady in front of us at the check out. Her card was declined because it had expired recently & she was in the middle of asking the cashier if he could hold her items while she went to the bank. Before the cashier could respond my husband stepped up & paid for her whole order. Saying that she didn't need to be out & about running around during the pandemic. She thanked us while saying she has lived in this town for years & has never seen anyone be so kind.
Not my flex but the recipient of one. As retold to me by my mother and siblings.
When I was a toddler, youngest of 4, my mom packed me and my siblings into the car with 1 suitcase of clothes in the middle of night and left my father. He had beat her for the last time. Her face black, blue and swollen she drove from Arkansas to Texas, headed for Houston. She drove until she just couldn’t keep her eyes open anymore.
We stopped at a run down highway motel. We all went in with mom to check in. My sister said that I was crying that I was hungry the whole time. Mom paid for the room in part with coins.
The next morning mom dumped her purse out looking for any more change to buy something for us to eat. She found a $100 bill in an outside pocket of her purse. She had no idea where it came from.
We got food, got to Houston and was able to pay for a week at a motel. Mom found a waitress job. Our new life was started by that $100.
When my mom retold this story to us many years later my brother, who was 8 at the time, said he saw the motel desk clerk put something in her purse but didn’t know what. Mom said it never dawned on her it could have been the clerk. That clerk gave us a step up toward a new life.
JENNY2M on December 23rd, 2020 at 02:18 UTC »
This happened just yesterday to me! A woman with three young kids in tow was in front of me in line at the grocery store. She didn’t have enough to cover her cart and it was abundantly clear she was buying food for Christmas (a turkey, some canned food, and a bit of fresh vegetables) and started putting canned food back. I asked if I could buy her items and she reluctantly agreed and thanked me. I’ve always wanted to have a reason to pay it forward like this. I hope they enjoy their Christmas meal!
beanathin on December 23rd, 2020 at 02:30 UTC »
My husband & me were at the grocery store recently & there was this old lady in front of us at the check out. Her card was declined because it had expired recently & she was in the middle of asking the cashier if he could hold her items while she went to the bank. Before the cashier could respond my husband stepped up & paid for her whole order. Saying that she didn't need to be out & about running around during the pandemic. She thanked us while saying she has lived in this town for years & has never seen anyone be so kind.
piratebabygirl on December 23rd, 2020 at 05:03 UTC »
Not my flex but the recipient of one. As retold to me by my mother and siblings.
When I was a toddler, youngest of 4, my mom packed me and my siblings into the car with 1 suitcase of clothes in the middle of night and left my father. He had beat her for the last time. Her face black, blue and swollen she drove from Arkansas to Texas, headed for Houston. She drove until she just couldn’t keep her eyes open anymore.
We stopped at a run down highway motel. We all went in with mom to check in. My sister said that I was crying that I was hungry the whole time. Mom paid for the room in part with coins.
The next morning mom dumped her purse out looking for any more change to buy something for us to eat. She found a $100 bill in an outside pocket of her purse. She had no idea where it came from.
We got food, got to Houston and was able to pay for a week at a motel. Mom found a waitress job. Our new life was started by that $100.
When my mom retold this story to us many years later my brother, who was 8 at the time, said he saw the motel desk clerk put something in her purse but didn’t know what. Mom said it never dawned on her it could have been the clerk. That clerk gave us a step up toward a new life.