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05/23/13, 07:37 AM
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Pass it forward today
In light of so many tragedies in our country in the last few years and the way we always seem to pull together I would like to issue a challenge today.
Try to do something nice for someone today. Pay for the guy behind you's breakfast, buy the kid in line at Wal-Mart a candy bar, give an extra tip to your waitress, take a pie or cake to a neighbor, take a basket of fruit to someone in the nursing home, give a just because card to a friend or neighbor, and the list goes on and on. Doesn't necessarily have to cost anything. Bake cookies and take to the teachers at school that are actually finished with the year but have to finish up. Give $5.00 to the Red Cross or Salvation Army. I can think of lots and lots of things.
My guess is that you will feel wonderful with whatever you do.
Do not tell us what you did for someone just a simple "I did it" on here to see how many people passed it forward today.
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05/23/13, 08:09 AM
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I did it. 
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05/23/13, 09:53 AM
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Man I like your style and thought. Both the Mrs and I did it.
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05/23/13, 01:45 PM
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Did it today!
A long time ago a guy in front of me in a drive thru paid for my order. It was such a nice surprise and I still remember the feeling.
I then paid for the driver behind me. It's too bad many of us don't think of doing this without a reminder.
Thanks for the reminder.
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05/23/13, 01:52 PM
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I did it, and so did DH. 
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05/23/13, 02:58 PM
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We did it! MOF, I do it quite often, Surprises a lot of people.
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05/23/13, 03:01 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Oklahoma
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I did it too Just like to brighten a persons day
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05/23/13, 06:59 PM
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On Monday, I had to wait for DH at Lake City VA Hosp. I was parked in the shade. Someone parked next to me, I wasn't really paying attention. Then I heard noise and looked, there was an elderly man in the suv next to me with all the windows down. After about 1/2 hour it was so hot he opened his door. I was concerned that he might fall out so I went to check on him. He was blind and could not find his bottle of water, so I handed it to him. I had just purchased some cookies, so I offered him one. They are the dark chocolate pirouline. He loved it and asked for another. I gave him the whole tin and cautioned him about any diet restrictions. He said that he would save them until his daughter returned so she could taste and get him some more. I had to leave before she returned. But I knew he had water and cookies. I love old guys!
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05/24/13, 08:59 AM
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I saw someone else do it today and it was awesome!!
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05/24/13, 10:07 AM
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05/24/13, 10:15 AM
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I did it!
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05/25/13, 10:06 AM
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At every opportunity.
I hate shopping, even for groceries, but one of my pleasures is helping a harried parent with a crying child(ren) or an elderly person with his/her cart. The worse the weather, the more it means to me and I hope to the recipient of the gesture. Of course, "elderly" is a matter of perspective as I'm 64 and very gray haired, but maybe there are older people who look upon me as a "kid" as I help load groceries to their vehicle or offer to put the cart back into the corral.
Had a similar experience as the mama's one summer some years back. An elderly gentleman was sitting in a parked car, only his window down and he wasn't moving. I couldn't even see him breathing despite watching him several minutes. I went into the store, reported the situation and accompanied the security lady to the car. Fortunately, the man was okay, but looked so frail that the security lady actually gave me a hug when she thanked me. We figured that it was just to strenuous for him to try to even leave the car to get into a wheel chair to enter the store.
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05/25/13, 09:26 PM
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I don't encounter a lot of strangers, and I like it that way, but nearly everyone on the road is a stranger, and usually a grateful recipient of good manners from me or other drivers. Trying to NEVER get in anybody's way is a cost-free way to make the world a better place.....Joe
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05/27/13, 12:33 AM
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I did it on the 25th. Is that too late to count?
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05/29/13, 07:54 AM
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Never too late!!
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05/29/13, 11:53 AM
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I did it - feels great! It's probably right about now that they're discovering that someone did it. Big smiley!
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05/30/13, 06:51 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by the mama
On Monday, I had to wait for DH at Lake City VA Hosp. I was parked in the shade. Someone parked next to me, I wasn't really paying attention. Then I heard noise and looked, there was an elderly man in the suv next to me with all the windows down. After about 1/2 hour it was so hot he opened his door. I was concerned that he might fall out so I went to check on him. He was blind and could not find his bottle of water, so I handed it to him. I had just purchased some cookies, so I offered him one. They are the dark chocolate pirouline. He loved it and asked for another. I gave him the whole tin and cautioned him about any diet restrictions. He said that he would save them until his daughter returned so she could taste and get him some more. I had to leave before she returned. But I knew he had water and cookies. I love old guys! |
Wonderful!
But at 1st I thought you were going to say he was DRIVING!!!
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06/03/13, 02:30 AM
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I did - was separating seedlings and wrote a sweet HTer I met a few days ago and asked her to come get the extra's (over 200 tomatoes) if she wanted them. She was thrilled is going to share with all her other friends and family (heirloom, so most will harvest seeds). Sharing this just to encourage others to share their extra seedlings instead of tossing them.
At the Mother Earth News Fair yesterday, my friend & I were waiting in line. A complete stranger walks up, smiling, holding out a weekend pass, "My husband couldn't come, would you like the ticket?" My friend is retired and on a fixed income. That was soooo nice!
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06/03/13, 04:11 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grandma12703
In light of so many tragedies in our country in the last few years and the way we always seem to pull together I would like to issue a challenge today.
Try to do something nice for someone today. Pay for the guy behind you's breakfast, buy the kid in line at Wal-Mart a candy bar, give an extra tip to your waitress, take a pie or cake to a neighbor, take a basket of fruit to someone in the nursing home, give a just because card to a friend or neighbor, and the list goes on and on. Doesn't necessarily have to cost anything. Bake cookies and take to the teachers at school that are actually finished with the year but have to finish up. Give $5.00 to the Red Cross or Salvation Army. I can think of lots and lots of things.
My guess is that you will feel wonderful with whatever you do.
Do not tell us what you did for someone just a simple "I did it" on here to see how many people passed it forward today.
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Your preaching to the choir if your talking to me. Most every week I "pass it on down the line" at least once in some way or another.
Sometimes it may be just giving someone some change to help them check out of a store ahead of me. A few days back a waitress at a restaurant where I stopped for a go plate lunch was almost doubled over with a kidney infection pain and remarked that she could use a good dose of cranberry juice but none of her regulars were willing to go to the store across the road to get her some so I offered to pick her up a jug as I went over to the store to get my bottle of Dr Pepper while they cooked up my go plate. When she offered to give me the couple bucks it cost I told her to just remember it and pass it down the line sometime when she gets the chance.
Later today when I take a dog that turned up at my place to my vet I plan to give him some feed and board money to send to a clinic in Oklahoma like he collected for Ohio and Louisiana in the past.
I have no choice but to always pass it down the line because of my Grandfather.
During the 1930s he had a job , house and full pantry and while loafering at the town train depot after work a freight train down on his lucker dropped off a Texas bound freight begging lunch bucket scraps from the workers loafing and playing checkers before going home for the evening.
When the freight rider came to Gramps he knew his lunch bucket was empty but he knew he was due to draw his $17 pay for the week the next day so he gave the guy a dollar and some change and well wishes for his job search.
A few years later Gramps $17 a week job was gone and he was hopping the southbound freight to the Texas oilfields.
When he arrived at a construction site seeking day labor, the foreman told him to pick whatever job he could do and wanted and it was his for as long as he wanted and the man was foreman.
Gramps said he looked at the foreman with disbelief and the foreman asked him if he remembered giving a railroad bum his last 10 bits at a depot a couple years earlier and said he remembered Gramps lanky frame and sweat stained Stetson Open Road hat.
My grandfather spent the rest of the Depression running a drag bucket for up to $30 a week plus bunk and board sending $25 a week home while my great uncle kept the farm up.
For all the years I knew my grandfather he always said that buck and a quarter he passed down the line at the depot was the best thing he ever passed down the line even though he passed other stuff down the line in his life.
I always thought it ironic that I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s hearing Gramps and my father talk of passing it down the line and then in the 1980s or 90s somebody wrote a song about it.
No matter how bad or evil this world may seem at times, passing something down the line is the glue that holds it together for the next era to come.
As you said, Pass it on down the line because someday you may find yourself down the same line or one just as tough.
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