I'm Lovin' It!

Recently my mother-in-law told me about this story. I forgot all about it until I was in the Mickey D's drive through with my mom when she was here (we stopped to get her a Diet Coke). I told my mom about it and she scoffed! She said something like "As if that would ever happen, the chain going on all day? Come on!" I believe that this story really could happen and it irritated me that she wasn't a believer! Just to prove her wrong I told her, "Okay then. I'm going to pay for the person behind us." Behind us in the drive through line was this huge, nice truck with a family full of kids. I was praying that their bill wasn't $50. When we got up to the pay window, I told the worker I wanted to pay for the car behind us. He was so confused and said he didn't think he could do that. I talked him into it and he reluctantly charged my debit card for their order. I wanted to pull up to the second window, take the Coke and drive off quick before they were told what happened. But alas, the line was SO slow, and we were stuck behind a car waiting for their food while the truck pulled up to the pay window. We watched them as the worker told them their food was paid for. The wife got this huge grin on her face. They kept looking at us in amazement like "Do we know them?" They looked so confused yet so happy at the same time! My mom and I were trying so hard not to laugh and kept straight faces as if we didn't know why they were staring at us. Then we took off as fast as we could. I don't know if they paid for the people behind them in line, but it was so fun. It made me feel so good! It was like a runner's high that lasted all day.

Today I went to the grocery store. I loaded my groceries in the car, put Addyson in and was heading over to return the cart to the cart return ( I hate doing this with her in the car, alone--I have to lock the doors first). This nice woman saw me load Addy in and came over and took my cart and told me she would return it for me. This was no huge deal, but it made a big difference to me and made me smile. It made me think about how random acts of kindness really can have an impact on people! Imagine if everyone did one RAK a day! Wouldn't the world be a better place?

I love this quote:

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. " ~James Matthew Barrie