Faith in humanity............RESTORED!
So I was just at the grocery store buying cat food to feed my babies, and the checkout lady was asking everyone if they wanted to buy flowers for mom for Mothers Day (it's tomorrow in the US).
I scathingly looked at her and responded "she died last year". Poor checkout lady was all of a fluster.
Got my cat food and stomped off quite grumpily. As I was opening my car door, I heard a lady saying "excuse me". I turned around, and her and her daughter handed me a bunch of white roses and said that they'd overheard and it must be a rough time for me and they hoped the roses would make me feel a bit better.
I cried.

Edit: This afternoon, I am going to buy a bottle of champagne and some flowers, and give them to a random person who looks like they need cheering up on my way to the lake.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 9 May 2009, 18:36, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

That's brilliant
I wish things like that would happen more often
( Captain V, Sat 9 May 2009, 18:46, Reply)

I was stunned and shocked.
It made my day though, and now I want to do something random like that.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 9 May 2009, 18:52, Reply)

*hugs*
Hooray for unexpected acts of kindness. What a nice lady & daughter.

xxx
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 9 May 2009, 19:01, Reply)

That's fantastic.
I don't think you should feed your babies with cat food though. Try SMA baby food instead.
( CowJam, Sat 9 May 2009, 19:06, Reply)

That's just wonderful
Humans can be so incredibly thoughtful.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sat 9 May 2009, 19:08, Reply)

Yay!
The guerilla kindness-brigade strikes again! Huraah!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sat 9 May 2009, 19:12, Reply)

Awww, that's really lovely.
It's quite touching.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 9 May 2009, 19:20, Reply)

Shame you treated the checkout lady like that, though.
No harm in promoting the celebration of mums; if we were all bound by the fear of upsetting other people, we'd never speak at all.
( thealternativefact, Sat 9 May 2009, 21:12, Reply)

I like this.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sat 9 May 2009, 22:26, Reply)

Yup, I agree with this.
Everyone has shitty days though, it's good to try not to take it out on other people, but I'm afraid most people of guilty of it.

I'm not sayin' WNBM is doing this, more of a general social comment...I think people look down upon people who work awnsering phones or at the tills, and think they're perfectly good emotional punching bags. I hate to say this, but I find it's more common in people from middle easten or african countrys, but it's previlent* in the UK too.

Personaly, I find good mannors are always nice, don't cost a penny, can get you very very far... but if I've got a major case of the Emos, I just avoid eye contact and shut myself off, which probably seems rude too.

One of the things that I love about being pleasent, is up my way, if I ever want fags or a chinese, and I'm short of cash, I'm sorted.

Oh christ, I sound holy-than-thow, I don't mean too, I'm just...ermm... well, I'll just shut up now.

* Is that the right word?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 10 May 2009, 1:38, Reply)

No No No!
I am usually super polite to the till monkeys, but here in the States I've has Mothers Day rammed down my throat for the last month. I felt bad for the way I talked to the checkout lady but unfortunately it was just one of those things - bad timing.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sun 10 May 2009, 2:17, Reply)

Super polite to the
till monkeys...

Way to make a girl feel great about her job!
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sun 10 May 2009, 11:34, Reply)

Precisely.
And did you think about the fact that the till monkey might not have a mum either? What about all the other people who've lost mums - did you think about them all the years you were happy to celebrate and talk about Mothers Day yourself?

Gestures like the one that lady and her daughter made to you are beautiful and restorative. But much more important are the respectful, thoughtful and non-assumptive ones we should be making on a daily basis.
( thealternativefact, Sun 10 May 2009, 12:37, Reply)

I once heard two young chavs talking about the best route to take home,
one said to the other "Nah, that's way's way quicker, simple pythagoras innit?"

Faith Restored!
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Sun 10 May 2009, 10:48, Reply)

Haha!
I like this.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sun 10 May 2009, 11:32, Reply)