Week 6 Kindness Story: Paying it Forward

 

Have you ever bought the car behind you their Grande Mocha because the car in front of you paid for your Tall Caramel Frappe? I like to think of this as a kindness train. My mom told me a story about how she recently hopped on one such kindness train.

She had gone shopping at a local deli and when she went to pay with a $100 gift card, she was told she could only use that particular card online. Let's just say this didn’t go over particularly well. A kind man in the line up behind her could see how flustered and angry she was so he offered to pay for her order. At first my mom tried to stop him, but he insisted.

When she got home, she decided the best thing she could do was pay the kindness forward. She decided to give a donation of $100 to Doctors Without Borders because it made her feel good to help less fortunate countries in some small way. It's heartwarming when people do what they can to keep the kindness train chuggin' along.