Random Acts of Kindness

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So I'm at the drive-thru line and I order a chicken biscuit. I pull up to the window to pay when the cashier informs me that the stranger in front of me had paid for my meal. I was in complete awe and it pretty much uplifted my morning.

Have you ever received a random act of kindness or have you gave one out yourself? I want to give a stranger a random gift now or something!
 
Assuming you live in America. That's amazing and no I have never received that level of kindness. Awfully nice of them.
 
I've given a homeless man my cheesesteak when I saw them digging through the trash. Never had anything done for me like that.
 
y2dvd said:
So I'm at the drive-thru line and I order a chicken biscuit. I pull up to the window to pay when the cashier informs me that the stranger in front of me had paid for my meal. I was in complete awe and it pretty much uplifted my morning.
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Weren't you supposed to pay for the meal of the next person along?
 
E92 M3 said:
I've given a homeless man my cheesesteak when I saw them digging through the trash. Never had anything done for me like that.
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I've tried giving packaged food to homeless people before -- whatever I had on me, like a granola bar or something. They've always rejected it, saying they wanted something else. I'm not sure how someone in their position can reject something like free food. Really put me off.

FortuneFaded said:
Weren't you supposed to pay for the meal of the next person along?
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Yeah, OP. You fucked up one of those random acts of kindness food chains.
 
If I get a full day bus pass and I am getting off the bus I just pass it to whoever is getting if I am not going to be using it again that day.
 
This happened to me twice in a row the same day, never happened before or again, super weird.

Basically, my wife felt like burgers and the kids felt like pizza, so I got a shitty $5 pizza from local joint, dude told me it was paid for by a stranger before me, after that, I walked to the A&W in the corner of the same plaza and same thing.

I wonder if the dude paid for tons of meals on the same plaza, why?

I thought maybe someone was shooting a YouTube video to catch reactions but I couldnt see anything.
 
Haha. One of those feel good random chains of kindness which really show the vein of human decency that runs through us all, begun and ended with mr y2dvd shoving his free chicken biscuit down his gob and driving off. Love it.
 
2 years back, when I needed to get home from my high-school After-Grad party downtown 4 am in the morning, I didn't have enough money to take a cab. However, a classmate of mine - who's also quite the devout Christian too I may add - gave me 20 bucks.

I told him I'd pay him back somehow but he outright refused. insisted that I owe nothing to him, and really just wanted to help me out. I proceeded to hug the shit out of him for that.
Still wanna return the favor to this day though, which is particularly hard given that he's movied to California now.
 
Indrid Cold1 said:
Haha. One of those feel good random chains of kindness which really show the vein of human decency that runs through us all, begun and ended with mr y2dvd shoving his free chicken biscuit down his gob and driving off. Love it.
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I've done this quite a few times at the Dunkin Donuts. During the summer they run a promotion; any size/flavor iced coffee for 99 cents. I've developed quite an addiction, going almost every day. Feels good, man.
 
I think the best I dealt with was working at a Starbucks in downtown Toronto. This woman came up, she ordered her drink and then said "now here's the fun part". She handed me a gift card and told me to load 50$ on it. Then she told me to hang on to it and use it on people as they come in at my discretion. Basically just keep going until the card ran out.


Most people were extremely appreciative and excited. I remember one dude tried to get more things after and I turned him down. Mostly, though, it was just people really appreciating their good fortune and the anonymous kindness.

I don't love the food chains though. It has to come to an end eventually and by just re-allocating your own purchase to another person's item just doesn't do it for me. The first person who did it bought their item and yours. Instead of just turning it in to a purchase by another name, I'd rather people do something like take the inspiration from the random item purchased and then do something nice in another way later on to some unsuspecting person.
 
backflip10019 said:
I've tried giving packaged food to homeless people before -- whatever I had on me, like a granola bar or something. They've always rejected it, saying they wanted something else. I'm not sure how someone in their position can reject something like free food. Really put me off.
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Yeah. If I'm asked for money, I've walked out with an extra sandwich or a bar of some kind. Some folks don't take too kindly to it, because they want to get high or drunk..I'd rather by that shit for myself.
 
backflip10019 said:
I've tried giving packaged food to homeless people before -- whatever I had on me, like a granola bar or something. They've always rejected it, saying they wanted something else. I'm not sure how someone in their position can reject something like free food. Really put me off.
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Yeah a lot of them are seeking "other" things, but the guy I gave it to looked visibly hungry.
 
I do this when I'm feeling down on myself, maybe thats selfish but its mostly when I feel like there is not enough simple good in the world. Nothing like paying for a person's meal but simple things in my mind.

Actually last night I was doing this in the game Warframe. There are lots of rare items that take hours/days/weeks to find but people trade/sell them for premium currency in the game that is bought with real money. Last night when I saw someone looking for something that I had lying around, instead of charging them I gave it out free.

Its simple and does not mean much to non gamers, but the people who I found were really grateful and made me feel a bit better about how crappy everything has been lately.

Real world I guess I do stuff like this too. Not really out of some sense of being a better person but because I just have a sense of things not being a big deal. Someone drops money ect. I tend to not keep it, I give it back. Friend lost a 20 in high school and was upset about it the next day, since I found one the afternoon before I gave it to her. Assumed it was hers, no clue if it wasn't but its no big deal to me....

Though I did plan to buy the last copy of Resident Evil 3 at the Media Play up the street that afternoon.... they were the last store still selling PS1 games (this was middle of PS2 cycle) and had some great left overs. Only RE game I still don't own a physical copy for...
 
I was getting my car worked on and there is this place across the street which makes great NY style stuff (Portland, OR) and I went over for a couple beers and some garlic bread. Overheard the waitress stressing about stuff talking to another person she seemed to know (real family joint). My bill was $11 and I tipped $20 with a note that said "happy bday!" because I overheard she was sleeping in for her bday but then had to come to work.

Also, had a full suspension mountain bike I could have probably gotten $450 for on CL, but it was a gift to me so I drove downtown with it on my bike rack, found a homeless dude with the worst bike and gave it to him. He cried, I cried, we all cried. The rest of my day was great.

I'm actually thinking of ordering some sub-zero sleeping bags and handing them out downtown but have to see where my finances fall.

backflip10019 said:
I've tried giving packaged food to homeless people before -- whatever I had on me, like a granola bar or something. They've always rejected it, saying they wanted something else. I'm not sure how someone in their position can reject something like free food. Really put me off.
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There was a thread on reddit asking "past homeless people, what can I give homeless people" and it was strange but food wasn't necessarily always at the top of the list. They say that most can get meals or are in places where they can be fed, and that you don't just 'eat' a lot, you eat very little and adjust to that. With packaged food they'd have to carry it around so while 10 cans of Spaghettio's seems like a great idea, they risk being robbed by people who don't try and get fed in other ways or having to carry it around/hide it for a day where they can't get fed and will need it. Blankets, sleeping bags, socks (OMG socks!) were some of the top things, for those that aren't "permanent homeless" and trying to get out of a rut or w/e, showers, a stay at a hotel for the night, deoderant, toothpaste/brush, etc ...

It was a really weird thread to read. When it comes down to it money is probably the best thing, while you run the risk of giving to the wrong person, it's the one thing that they can hide/stash rather easily and be able to turn it into something they need later.
 
Keep forgetting to update this. Lol at some of these responses. I forwarded the kindness eventually!

2 weeks ago this kid is playing Magic: The Gathering at my local game store. He wanted to trade for one of my cards, but we had to play our matches and hold off on the trades until afterwards. Unfortunately, his mom had to take him home in the middle of my match, so we never got to trade.

Fast forward to a few days ago, I see the kid again and asked him if he still wanted my card. He said he does but he didn't bring his cards with him. I told him not to worry about it and I gave him my card. He took it with a huge grin and ran to his mother sitting in the opposite side of the room to tell her what I had done. Feels good man. The great thing was the kid was trying to find anything to give me in return and I told him it wasn't necessary.

My buddy was right there and asked if he was going to get anything and I said "F' no!" lol.
 
This one time, I saw someone buy a PS3, and then sell it to someone else.
And then another time I saw someone consider giving his friend $2000 so he didn't become homeless, but then he didn't.
And then another time I heard someone ask a pizza delivery guy to pick some beer up for him, and he would give him $20, but that didn't happen
 
That was good of you to not pay for the next person's meal. All you would've been doing is being part of a chain so big that it ends up on reddit and gives the restaurant free publicity. The publicity is meant to give people the false sense of inclusion via purchasing food for each other, thus getting other people to go to the restaurant in hopes of the same thing happening and "just to be a part of something." In reality, the "happiness chain" was a barked order by the fat, balding, registered sex offender manager, who was desperate to get on "that fucking red-dit webpage with cats and shit." The employees were told to lie about a chain happening to each customer or risk being fired or, worse, locked in the manager's K-Y dungeon.

You foiled his evil plan, OP! You are a crusader of truth in this modern age of viral marketing, which won't stop until slathers a sickeningly sleek veneer over every inch of this disgusting society.
 
I was at subway a couple of years ago, and a guy in front was going mental at the poor girl behind the counter because he had incorrectly read the offer on the board and assumed he was being ripped off by £1. He was being pretty abusive, and I could see she was close to tears

so I got my wallet out, gave him a £1 coin and told him to fuck off before I knock him out. He mouthed off at me, then left.

The girl (a really attractive european chick) then gave me a staff discount on the sub, said thankyou and wrote her number on the receipt.


...I lost the receipt and never saw her again. fuuuuck. I was late for being back at work, I had to rush, and I must have mislaid it, or it fell out of my pocket when I took my keys out to get into the back door of the store. doh.
 
New Years eve like 6 years ago I gave a dude on a motorcycle who was asking for change to get gas a $20 bill and walked off to my New Year's Party at home. He said holy shit thanks as I left, but really I did it not because I was a good person, but rather because I had to take a shit really bad and I couldn't be bothered to break the $20 by going back into the gas station at the time.
 
About a month or so ago I was driving in our neighborhood and saw these two teenage boys walking and I saw them walk up to this sleeping homeless guy and saw them throw some cash down next to the guy and they walked off.

I thought that was so fucking awesome I turned my car around and drove up to the kids and told them that that was the coolest thing I'd seen all year. I'm sure they thought I was weird or whatever since they kind of just looked at me lol but I didn't give a fuck. That shit made me feel pretty good about humanity that day, especially since these kids couldn't have been more than 13 years old.
 
Shemyaza said:
About a month or so ago I was driving in our neighborhood and saw these two teenage boys walking and I saw them walk up to this sleeping homeless guy and saw them throw some cash down next to the guy and they walked off.

I thought that was so fucking awesome I turned my car around and drove up to the kids and told them that that was the coolest thing I'd seen all year. I'm sure they thought I was weird or whatever since they kind of just looked at me lol but I didn't give a fuck. That shit made me feel pretty good about humanity that day, especially since these kids couldn't have been more than 13 years old.
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So...
Did you give the guy any money?
 
I had a woman share her umbrella with me on the way home when it pissing down with rain.

Damn nice lady, we talked about The Walking Dead of all things and how she's addicted to the show. Should have got her number to repay the act of kindness, but oh well.
 
Yesterday, I invaded someone on Dark Souls 2.
I hailed and never attacked (he was cautious all the time), I dropped a full Alone knight set and pointed him on where the ambushes and enemies were. When we got to the boss fog wall, I saluted, wished him luck and dropped into a chasm.


Does that count?
 
Story time.

At one point in my life i was really down on my luck. Living in one of the worst motels in town, working at mcdonalds and barely scrapping by. It was middle of the summer, hot as hell, and there was no A/C in the motel and barely any air flow.

So I took a bus to the store, bought a big stand up fan and other groceries, and bused back to the busstop closest the motel. Not very long after getting off the bus, the fan box breaks, so now I'm having to drag this broken box awkwardly along with groceries in my hand. The box keeps breaking down further and fan parts going everywhere. I was already not in a good place in life, and so this was just more shit being kicked in my face.

I must of looked really pathetic, because a really nice lady stopped on the curb and asked me if I needed a lift. Not only was I able to get all that stuff home, but just her act of kindness really brightened my week. So thank you random lady, that was one of the best things a stranger has ever done for me.
 
Shemyaza said:
About a month or so ago I was driving in our neighborhood and saw these two teenage boys walking and I saw them walk up to this sleeping homeless guy and saw them throw some cash down next to the guy and they walked off.

I thought that was so fucking awesome I turned my car around and drove up to the kids and told them that that was the coolest thing I'd seen all year. I'm sure they thought I was weird or whatever since they kind of just looked at me lol but I didn't give a fuck. That shit made me feel pretty good about humanity that day, especially since these kids couldn't have been more than 13 years old.
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Everyone here is being urged not to ever give any money to homeless people on the streets under any circumstances. There's a significant issue with drug abuse, theft and alcoholism amongst the homeless where I live, so I can't blame the council for taking that stance.

this is the same campaign they are running here, poster for newcastle:

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I work in the school library as a "multimedia assistant" which is a fancy way of saying I help people print. Yesterday, a dude walked in and tried to print some shit out. He didnt have any money on his card nor had the time to do it. He kinda looked like the bro type but he seemed really stressed out so I said fuck it and let him use the card we have to issue free prints as refunds. I do this pretty consistently if the people are nice enough and its only a couple pages.

Also, I was smoking a blunt by myself at a park near the school at night. It just so happens the park is lined by another college and I heard a janitor getting out of a class. I kept smoking and he remarked "it smells good out here". I just said "yup yup... wanna hit it" considering I always smoke alone. He obliged, said its on him next time, and kept it moving. I eventually finished and dipped.

Feels good man

My karma seemed to pay off because my guy bernardoOne from the Steam thread saw me inquiring about Guacamelee and gifted me a key from a past humble bundle :D
 
Other day I cleaned up a dead possum that our landlord decided to leave in our lot for over a week. Upstairs neighbors (whom I've never met) saw me doing it, thanked me at the time, then brought over a dish of tuna casserole about 20 minutes later. Definitely made me smile.
 
When I quit playing WoW I gave all of my gold (like 12,000) to some random guy. I had an ulterior motive, though, as I wanted to stop playing and thought that would help (it did).
 
If I'm not doing anything important and I see people having vehicular problems I like to offer help because I'm pretty good with cars. Helped a lady with a small child change a tire on the side of the highway in the middle nowhere while it was in the hottest part of summer one time. She was so stressed, the look of relief on her face had me feeling good for a long time.

Lately I've been helping people open the front door to the vault of glass. Does that count?
 
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