People cutting in line at Walmart

[LightningCrash]

enough to drive a man nuts!

seriously... who does that

this guy here, apparently:

 

[dennishoddy]

Yep, there are still good people in this world.

 

[HMFIC]

Yup there are.

Good story.

 

[ArGyLe64]

It's "were", not "where".

That man was a gentleman and a scholar.

 

[Okie4570]

Yep, good story, thanks for sharing.

 

[mhphoto]

I love stories like this!

 

[kinggabby]

How dare him for cutting in line. And to interfere with someone else"s purchase . The nerve of it all . And may God bless him for doing so.

 

[tRidiot]

Doing this is one of the best feelings... there was a thread about this or something similar on here a year or so ago, and I posted about my experience paying for a woman's groceries. She didn't have a lot, maybe $25 or $30 worth or so, but my son who was 6 at the time was with me and he was very intrigued by the whole thing. I took it as a great teaching point to show him how we can make a difference in people's lives every day if we look around for an opportunity to do so. I told him that maybe the person behind us might see that and do the same, or the woman whose groceries we paid for might do it for someone else next time. He was pretty interested and really seemed to get the whole, "Pay It Forward" concept.

Besides making me feel good, and making the "victim" feel good, I think it really made an impact on my boy, as he's mentioned it to me a couple of times since then. It was around the holdays, too, so it was an easy enough thing to pass off when she looked so surprised as "Merry Christmas!"

I also routinely (several times a week) at work will pay for the lunch of the people in line behind me and don't say anything as I walk away. I hear the cashier behind me tell them, "He just paid for yours," and their surprised exclamations as they ask who that guy is, lol. I don't fit the typical appearance of my profession, and hanging out in ER exclusively, most of the hospital staff doesn't know me, so it makes it all the more fun!

Great to hear stories like this about people still caring for others in a messed up world.

 

[Danny Tanner]

Doing this is one of the best feelings... there was a thread about this or something similar on here a year or so ago, and I posted about my experience paying for a woman's groceries. She didn't have a lot, maybe $25 or $30 worth or so, but my son who was 6 at the time was with me and he was very intrigued by the whole thing. I took it as a great teaching point to show him how we can make a difference in people's lives every day if we look around for an opportunity to do so. I told him that maybe the person behind us might see that and do the same, or the woman whose groceries we paid for might do it for someone else next time. He was pretty interested and really seemed to get the whole, "Pay It Forward" concept.

While it's fantastic that you paid for someone's groceries, it's even more fantastic that your 6 year old was shown, through example, one of the most generous forms of charity through someone he, no doubt, idolizes (or at least did so at that time ).

The rest of that paragraph reminds me of these two Liberty Mutual Insurance commercials from a few years ago. I've heard their practices don't exactly smell like what they're stepping in in these commercials, but it's still an awesome lesson:

 

[bmxr4life87]

I can relate one night earlier this summer i was on my way back from taking a breakdown call (after hours mobile truck repair) i had made a "pit stop" at QT off i44 and 193rd. I parked at a pump because my service truck is a 17ft box truck and its easiest to navigate that way. I see a lady walking along asking people for something but i pay no attention as i just assume panhandler. After i purchase my drinks now ready to head home i see the lady has her car over by the air compressor and a gentleman is attempting to remove a flat tire but with no luck. I decided to intervene since i am driving a mobile repair shop plus the guy was having a hell of a time even getting the car jacked up. Before she knew it her spare was installed, all tire pressures were properly set and the lugnuts were even torqued. As she was thanking me she told me her son would normally take care of these things for her but he was a few hundred miles away on a business trip now... And all i could think of is how my parent now live 250 miles away and hopefully someone would stop to help my mom as my dad cant always leave his job. Do unto others.