Last Thursday Ryan was at the Toastmaster’s of Rochester working on his speaking skills, and I was out doing more mystery shops to increase our alternative income for December. It was really late when I finally was heading home, and I knew it would just be me for dinner that night (Ryan would eat at the meeting), so I decided to do something I hardly ever do and grab Wendy’s to go.
I pulled into the drive in, and ordered my three items from the dollar menu and began moving up to pay for the food. There was a pretty long line at the Wendy’s and as I waited I glanced back to the car behind me. In the car was an older couple who were laughing; they looked really nice and were obviously in love. It was then that I decided that I would do something random – I decided to pay for their meal.
When I got to the register window I paid for my meal, and for theirs. This brought my total up to about $10 rather than $4, but I felt good about it. The people behind me had no idea, and I hope it made their day. I wondered if they would do the same for the car behind them, or just accept the meal and move on. I didn’t get a chance to see their reaction or anything, but that wasn’t the point.
I’ve never really done things like this before, and I don’t know what really prompted the action – but I felt really good the rest of the night just knowing that at least I made their night a little bit easier.
Have you ever done something that was a Random Act of Kindness? Have you ever been the recipient of a random act?
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Good for you! I have been the recipient of this at Starbucks twice. I had planned to do it this week.
Oh. that's so sweet!!! I want to do this at Starbucks now
Wow! That is a really sweet thing to do
It also kind of makes me want to follow you around and drive in behind you at Wendy's…
just last week i decided to walk home from work instead of taking the bus.
so i used my bus fare to pay parking meters for people who were running low or were already expired. it saved them a ticket because the parking patrol was not too far behind me.
Awesome. I was in a car when some friends did the same thing at a tollbooth.
Although I've never been the recipient of this, I'd guess most people's natural reaction is confusion, because that's usually how we feel after some random happens to us.
Good for you! That's wonderful, and very holiday-spirity of you. I know that's not why you did it, but karma will pay you back in three fold.
I have been both the recipient and the giver of random acts of kindness. i think they were along the same lines as above, but I can't think of specifics right now…hmmm.