| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 6/11/2009 11:49:31 PM | | If I'm behind a little kid in a convenience store and he's short some change for his purchase I'll pay it. | |
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Posted: 6/12/2009 8:02:07 AM | I throw birthday parties for the kid that are living in the local homeless shelter with their parents.
although there is a selfish element to it, making the cakes and decorating is a lot of for me! | |
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Posted: 6/12/2009 8:24:22 AM | | I used to crochet baby afghans and mail them anonymously (from another town) to the parents of newborns whose birth announcement I'd read in the paper. I remembered how much my girls loved the "woobies" I made for them, and I wanted other kids to experience that simple comfort. | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 7:33:05 AM |
What is Timmies Drive Thru???
Timmies is really Tim Horton's in Canada. Many locations. They sell donuts, coffee, sandwiches. Hence the drive thru. They sell these things called "timbits" which are really donuts shaped in the same size of the donut hole. My fav is the bavarian cream donut. mmmmm making me hungry! | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 8:09:24 AM | | At a Timmies drivethru a couple weeks ago, the person ahead of me had paid for my coffee. The girl said he does that every day ... sweet gesture ... but I wish I could at least say "thanks" ... lol | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 8:31:12 AM |
Timmies is really Tim Horton's in Canada. Many locations. They sell donuts, coffee, sandwiches. Hence the drive thru. They sell these things called "timbits" which are really donuts shaped in the same size of the donut hole. My fav is the bavarian cream donut. mmmmm making me hungry!
Oh man we dont have anything like that here in Australia!! The most we have is Maccas, Hungry Jacks and KFC :( Why cant they build places like that here?????
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Posted: 6/13/2009 2:32:50 PM | I have a friend who when going through the toll booth pays for the car behind her every single time. I thought that was soooo sweet the first time I saw her do that.  | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 5:12:49 PM | | intresting i wonder which timmys casue i do that all the time i even made a random act of kindness bussiness cards with a lil saying on it... i still havnt gotten one back :( | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 8:57:35 PM | I remember one time, my friend had no food nor money to get food (poor college students), so I went home and took out everything I felt he would like and even went to the grocery store and bought him tons of food. the following day I went to his apartment with all that food and he told me he really appreciated it and meant a lot to him. It felt great to help him..he's a good friend and I had something that he needed and I had the means to provide it, so why not.
I always felt that whatever you give to someone, big or small, you'll receive something greater, when and where, who knows, but it will come . :) | |
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Posted: 6/14/2009 4:21:39 AM | Thank you nocturnalprincess for resurrecting this thread.
I have a theory on that whole concept. There are Givers and there are Takers. Generally, the Givers find Takers because the Givers give and the Takers like to take. Givers never find each other because they don't feel comfortable taking, and Takers never link up because they want someone to take from. Thus, the Givers find Takers and the Takers find Givers, and the beat goes on.
Your theory has exceptions I think. I met this woman through a mom's coffee group in 2007. She works for a NPO which helps families with disabled children (developmental as well as physical). She's a giver. That's her job and likely part of her nature. I'm usually a giver but I guess I was a taker in the coffee group since I participated. Last summer, it was her and me at the McD's in July for the coffee group. We were IT since usually the group doesn't meet in July and August. Anyways, I asked her how she was doing with her boys (she, too, is a single parent). She almost broke down and cried when she told me about how stressful it had been lately during the "exchange" (where you pass the kids off to the ex). I listened. I had just come back from Hollyhock wearing my new favorite friendship bracelet. Let me tell you I was pretty attached to that bracelet. I took off my bracelet and took her hand, slipped the bracelet over it and said, I think you need this more than me for the next "exchange". She cried. I don't think she usually takes nor is offered.
I think the 2 most random acts I've ever done in my life were when I used to live in Vancouver. I remember helping a really old, barely able to walk chinese man in Chinatown who was still in the middle of a very busy Chinatown street. He was still crossing it and the light turned green going the other way. I couldn't believe the cars. They proceeded and drove around him as if he didn't exist. I ran out to the street and offered my arm. He took it and slowly walked to the other side with me. My sister got mad at me. Oh well, someone had to risk their life...he was going to get hit.
The second one was after I had my first born and I was shopping at the Safeway. This very disoriented senior came up to me with her cart of groceries and asked me where was the bus stop? I looked at her with all her groceries and I said I don't think you will be able to handle all the groceries on the bus. I told her the grocery store would deliver them if she asked. She looked at me so lost. I said to her, here I'll drive you home. I packed her groceries into my trunk, helped her into my car and she directed me. All that while, she thanked me over and over again. She said her cat needed food. I carried her groceries into her house and placed them onto the kitchen counters. She was so grateful. I felt bad though. Her house looked like it hadn't been clean for more than 2 years and ants were crawling all over her sticky counter. I didn't say anything though. I just smiled and left.
Nowadays, I don't usually place my life at risk or walk into a stranger's home. No. I usually give a huge smile to the retail clerk which I can see is having a really bad day. I say to them, thanks for working today so I can shop for what I need. Have a great day! Of course, these are Sundays!
The most we have is Maccas, Hungry Jacks and KFC :( Why cant they build places like that here?????
My fav timbit which has been discontinued was these icing coated ones with chocolate blasted into them. OMG so yummy. Too bad they don't have em anymore. What are Maccas?
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Posted: 6/14/2009 5:54:38 AM |
My fav timbit which has been discontinued was these icing coated ones with chocolate blasted into them. OMG so yummy. Too bad they don't have em anymore. What are Maccas?
We call McDonalds "maccas". We tend to nickname everything | |
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Posted: 6/14/2009 7:52:06 AM | | Maccas? We call em McD's or THE Golden Arches. Or the 12 year old will pantomime the M so the 5 yr old doesn't know!. You'll just have to come to Canada to get a timbit fix. They really are quite yummy. My new fav are the cruellers. :D | |
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Posted: 6/14/2009 6:14:00 PM | | I normally open doors for other people whenever I go out to places and let cars out of side streets or parking lots when traffic is heavy. | |
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Posted: 7/1/2009 11:11:10 PM | Isobel135,
Those are great morsels that you shared! Unfortunately, with so many predators out there, random acts of kindness must also be viewed with an air of suspiscion. Ted Bundy, after all, was a charmer.
I am glad that you were able to extend your genuine heart to others.
I worry about especially the elderly that they esteem their values on a different generation, a different breed of people, and often they are taken advantage of.
My most recent random act involved a small dog who had been clearly a house pet set free. It took some patience, but I finally got him to come to me. After twelve+ hours, you would think the owner would realize that there dog was missing, especially a house dog. I believe that most probably the owner had to relocate so it dumped the dog, which is the wrong way to get rid of a pet that is dependent upon you.
Through a bit of a team effort, we found this little guy a good home, so the owner's method worked, even as it was in my opinion ill-advised. The dog was working his way towards a main thoroughfare where he most certainly would have been hit by a car.
He got a good home, though, and now is in a much better place. | |
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Posted: 7/2/2009 9:01:43 AM | I looked at your profile joanne1357, and you do not wish to talk to me because we are not each other's type (We are both looking for the more masculine variety.) You seem like a vivacious, fun, very likeable woman, and I hope that some of the guys around here check you out because you seem like a good catch for a good man!
Warmest wishes! | |
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Posted: 7/2/2009 10:24:51 AM | I always offer to help an older person who seems to be struggling, whether with a door, carrying something or whatever. I also help young mothers and fathers that have their hands full with little ones. Actually, I help anyone who seems to need a little help. And I always ask the clerk waiting on me how they are and give them a big smile. (That one is a little selfish because I've discovered if I do that, I get better service.)
Off topic:
I visited in Australia. Their Macca's (McDonalds) are much more comfortable and cleaner (even in the towns in the outback) than many I've been in here in the states. They had the McCafe a couple years before we did and their's is a "real" cafe, with pasties (pastries) and tea and all the coffee drinks. Happy Jacks is what we call Burger King. Pretty much the same menu but without that irritating King in the ads.
One thing I never got used to is that their bacon is what we would call Canadian Bacon, it's really ham. I don't know what they call 'our' bacon.
p.s. I love how they nickname everything. | |
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Posted: 7/2/2009 12:01:41 PM | This was a true story I heard once, and I still literally get chills when I think about it.
An ambulance was called to pick up a baby that was dying, and it was in California. He got to the house but was absolutely needing to get to the hospital; because the baby was in arrest and they did not have the correct equipment on the ambulance to resuscitate him, and he was "going down".
And anyone who lives or has visited California knows how gridlocked the freeway system is.
The ambulance tried to enter the freeway only to hit a wall of nonmoving traffic. That particular stretch though had some work that was being started, and an earthmover that was going to be working the stretch saw the situation and literally created a path for the ambulance to follow; and brought it all the way to the exit needed. He LITERALLY "made" a lane for the ambulance. The ambulance got to the hospital literally in the nick of time; and they were able to save the baby after all. They said had it not gotten there when it did; there is no way he would have lived.
The earth mover got home that night and was met at the door by a frantic wife, who had just gotten back home (this happened before cell phones were common) from the hospital, and she proceeded in giving the story of how their baby went into arrrest and he barely got to the hospital in time; and it was only some good samaritan helping get them down the freeway that enabled their baby to live.
He realized the person in the ambulance he saved, just being kind? Was his own baby, | |
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Posted: 7/2/2009 11:41:04 PM | Moonbeamlover, that was a very chilling story. Thank you for sharing.
NocturnalPrincess, you have such a kind heart especially for animals. I don't know if it's me getting old or what, but I hate to see animals caged. I used to enjoy going to the aquarium to meditatively look at the gigantic tank of fish. Now I just feel bad for them being caught in a giant fishbowl.
Yes, I, too, have a soft spot for the elderly especially if they are frail. My now deceased grandfather didn't speak english very well and he shuffled when he walked. He was a terrible father to my dad. However, I remember being so mad when he told me he had lost his OAS during his walk to the local mall. At the time, it was over $400 which was a lot for him. Pure cash. Yeah as if someone would ever turn in cold hard cash.
Yep, so years later when I found a wad of $20's during Christmas at Lougheed Mall. Yeah, I turned it into the lost and found. My sister said I was crazy. Keep it cause I was a poor university student. I told her NO and recited the story of our grandfather. Just cause he was a terrible grandfather and now that someone else lost their cold hard cash, well, I just had to turn it in.
On the flip side, I have been robbed at work before. Yeah go figure, high security building so it was someone who worked in the building. Dang I was mad. I even sent out an email saying please return my money as how dare they decide they needed it more than I did. The worst part was I just got the money out of the bank for my kid's birthday.... | |
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