Everytime I perform a random act of kindness like this fellow, it is a matter of goodness for goodness sake, but I actually kinda expect bad things to happen to me afterwards, just because that’s the way the cruel world works. No good deed goes unpunished.
Seems like it at times. I might do a random good deed and life then gives me a pie in the face. Other times though something good might happen to me, or just an importantly, to a family member. But I agree that the giving is goodness for the sake of goodness, and that's enough.
I have never, not once, had anything given to me or have received anything from a stranger. It’s always been others looking to me for something. I get asked for money from people in grocery stores and have a couple of times bought some groceries for people. I’ve paid for a few old peoples items when they are checking out and don’t have enough money. I say put it on mine. I was in the dollar store the other day and a man in front of me had $4 and something and his EBT card wouldn’t work and he actually asked me to pay for it. I looked at the clerk and said no, I’ve already paid for it once. Boy did he have a cussing fit! Lol
I guess maybe I just don’t get it with these stories since I’m always the one expected to give.
I paid it forward in around 1995. I worked an evening shift and ate at the same diner daily for a couple of months. One evening they put me in a booth sitting with my back to a couple who were eating. I overheard the guy talking about what they could do after dinner, considering what was left over after paying for the meal, and that they might not have saved up enough for an evening out.
I finished before they did and picked up the tab for the couple’s dinner and left the diner. I like to think it made for a nice date for them.