*** OFFICIAL Pay it Forward/Random acts of kindness thread ***
 

I was part of this. I never get Starbucks but it got me to thinking... There is a lot of negative, horrible shit that happens in the world and to us. Maybe having one thread where we celebrate the what is best in us all wouldn't be such a bad thing.

We can post something that we heard about or happened to us or one of our friends or family. Doesn't have to be a big thing. Sometimes the small things like buying a cup of coffee for someone can make a difference. Anything we heard about a selfless act, giving to someone else for no reason other to make their life a little better, if only for a brief time can be posted here in this thread.

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An act of kindness at a Starbucks drive-thru in Florida inspired an 11-hour chain of paying-it-forward.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ucks/14380109/

A woman drove up and paid for her own iced coffee at 7 a.m. Wednesday at a St. Petersburg store, and also asked to pay for a caramel macchiato for the driver behind her, who then did the same for the next customer.

After a few people continued the chain, the employees started keeping a tally on a piece of paper by the window.

By 1:30 p.m., 260 people had paid it forward, according to the Tampa Bay Times, ordering their own drinks and paying for one for the stranger behind them. After people ordered their drinks and drove up to the window, barista Vu Nguyen explained that the drink had already been paid for and asked if they'd like to return the favor. In total, 378 people agreed to keep it going.

The baristas thought that if the chain lasted until closing, at 10 p.m., they would put the remaining money on a gift card and continue the next day, according to the Tampa Bay Times. But the chain finally ended in that evening.

At 6 p.m., the 379th customer ended the chain by ordering a coffee and declining to pay for the next one.

Nguyen says he doesn't believe that final customer understood the pay-it-forward concept.

I've never done anything that elaborate really.

I always hold doors. I always wait and stop signs and let the other person go. When we're trying to exit a crowded parking lot, like after a Chiefs game, I let other people go before me.

I found that over time, more people do the same for me if I keep doing it.

Our church does a lot of stuff too. We house and run the county food pantry and we buy stuff for shut-ins and the poor.

**** customer 379!! Someone needs to pay an ass kicking forward and maybe he will understand next time.

Cheap ass

DAMN YOU PARKER!

ROFL

I spent $74 on total strangers last week and I'm currently organizing a community event which will require me to cook over 200 pounds of pulled pork. The church paid for the meat but I'm paying for the wood and charcoal.

I'm good, at least karmically.

I steal swisher sweets from QuikTrip and give em to my homies

Want to pay it forward? That's just fine. But it's not supposed to be this whole "look at what I did" type of bullshit.

So you mean I can have my coffee for free??
Well yes, but we have a chain of 379 people before you that have paid it forward so far. Wouldn't you like to keep that going??

HELL NAW!! Gimme that free coffee!!

On a serious note, if I'm going thru a drive thru and the chick behin me is hot, I'll buy her food on occasion if she doesn't have a $10 order. Also can't tell you how many times I've helped someone load stuff that's too heavy for them at Lowes or Home Depot.

As long as you do a courtesy flush when pooping in a public place- Karma will be on your side.

I was at the airport last week - had to take a piss and some dude- Probably ****ing customer #379 was shitting his guts out- poop fogged the whole john and not one ****ing flush. I hate customer #379!! :cuss:

An Asian guy was standing next to me when I was washing my hands and he says " Eww stinky stinky" real loud. I laughed my ass off. I hope customer #379 heard it.

Flush it forward folks!

Absolutely this right here

Exactly.

That's what I'm talking about.

I also return carts for people at the store.

It's the little things that add up.

Sometimes when I am in line at a fast food place for lunch, I will look at the person behind me and if I think they could use it, I will pay for their lunch too.

Got that idea from a teacher in high school.

Do you have a weight limitation limit?

Some people will really get pissed if you try to pay for their food.

It wouldn't be a BRC thread without the humble brag.


I'll pay it forward though and insult the person behind me, too. PGM smells.

You smell like mayonnaise.

Mayo or Miracle Whip?

It matters.

The Starbucks thing happens somewhat often. Often enough that I've had people pay for my drinks two different times, and my wife has had people pay for hers more than once, too.

There was a homeless man about 3 weeks ago near 69 and 95th panhandling. I clipped him as I went around the corner.

He's in the hospital now, I suspect. So he has a nice bed and some food for as long as they keep him.

No need to thank me, Green-Coat-wearing Homeless dude. This is all about you. Pay it forward.

It happens at our local Dairy Queen, all the time. Should I post this, the next time it happens?

only if you started it and you can brag about it

I personally wouldn't, but only because I don't feel really good about it unless I'm helping someone pay for a $5 cup of coffee after someone already paid for mine.

I've given away so much free semen it's not even funny !

I was thinking a thread on something you had heard about, not really personal stories.

My wife's friend is getting married next month and they asked that people perform some sort of pay-it-forward kindness instead of getting them a gift. I thought that was pretty cool.

There ya go. Thats what I'm talking about.:thumb:

If you didn't know the bride and groom, we would have not known someone was thinking of others instead of themselves. Even on a pretty selfish day, a wedding day.

Sometimes the greatest gifts come in unexpected ways. Hopefully your body and paint shop also had a pay it forward thing going.

I grace people with my presence, does that count?

A few months ago, a guy got a soft drink at Kum and Go and then had his credit card declined. He said he was going to go to his truck and try to scoop up some change to pay for the 1.07 soda, but I told the cashier to put it on my credit card when paying for gas. The guy was extremely thankful, so I'll say it was the best buck I've ever spent.

Thats the thing with these type of events. It's not the $. You will never miss it and he would get over going to scrounge for some change. But you will both remember a kindness to a stranger with no motives than to help a fellow human being out.

It's not always the money or time invested that makes the difference, but just the effort itself to reach out to a fellow human being. It's the thought, not the material.

I let my wife order pizza last night instead of making dinner. I also gave her the night off from doing laundry /R8ers.

I helped this hot girl and her hot friend move a few things into their dorm room today. They thanked me by giving me their numbers.

Like a boss.

I understood, but the guy behind me looked like an a-hole.

It's great to see stuff like this. I think the more we try to please ourselves, the less satisfied we are. The more we serve others, the more personally-satisfied we become.

That doesn't count.:harumph:

LMAO

Can we get some girl to charity **** xztop123?

The man who broke the chain is ****ing awesome.

https://gma.yahoo.com/florida-man-de...ries.html?vp=1

What he did for the barista was pretty cool.

I had to laugh at the "I don't want to be forced into doing something" thing when the article states he drove to the Starbucks after hearing about the chain.

He makes a couple of really strong points.

Yup.

I will never forget this one Christmas Eve about six years ago. It was very cold and I was pissed because I had to get to the mall to exchange a few things at the last minute and it was getting dark near closing time. As I approached the mall entrance I heard the faint whimpers of what seemed to be a young child. I glanced over and noticed a kid no more than 12 years old sitting in an alcove and sobbing into his gloves. I approached and asked him what happened and my heart sank as he told his story.

His mother was busy and had dropped him off with three $100 bills instructing him to buy presents for his three younger siblings while she was at work and would pick him up later. He said before he even got in the mall two bigger kids began taunting him and took two of the $100 bills. I asked him if he tried to run or shout for help and he told me he did. I asked him how he did it and in the faintest voice I have ever heard he cried, "help!" It was at this point I knew there was no way anyone could have heard him so I took the other $100 bill and got the hell out of there.

A paramedic in Australia found a parking ticket belonging to a woman whose mother had died three days earlier and paid it because he figured the family was already going through a difficult enough time


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyl...d3fd1d6c195dc2

AN AMBULANCE officer's kindness has overwhelmed a Victorian woman grieving the death of her mother.

National Patient Transport Services officer Marc Primrose found a parking fine in the ambulance he used to help transport Rosemary Morgan’s mother Doreen from McKenna House Palliative Care in Broadmeadows to her Woodstock home on June 17.


The fine belonged to Mrs Morgan, whose mum died at the family home three days later.


Mr Primrose, a trainee ambulance paramedic, sensed the grief the family would have been going through and didn’t think twice about paying the $129 fine for her.


“It was my instinct not to just let this go because someone would have ended up with late fees and I didn’t want that to happen,” Mr Primrose said. “I’m just glad that it helped.”


Mrs Morgan said at the time the family didn’t think to check the parking meter.


“I think it was a three or four-hour parking limit, it wasn’t a long time,’’ Mrs Morgan said.


“We were in palliative care all night and day with mum. We didn’t want to leave her.”



She said seeing the parking ticket was horrible. “I just knew it was another thing I had to deal with later on,” she said.


“We just didn’t want to leave mum’s side.”


Mrs Morgan and her sister Karen were lucky enough to meet Mr Primrose in person and thank him for his act of kindness.


“For a complete stranger to do something like this was just amazing,” Mrs Morgan said.
“It’s been the little things like this that have helped us after mum’s death.”

http://www.fox17.com/news/features/t...note_23136.jpg

There was this college football player (I think he played for USC) that jumped off like the 20th floor of a building to save his drowning nephew and his dog. I guess the dog was trying to save the kid but since it only had 3 legs it just kept going in circles. Anyway this pay it forward hero broke every bone in both legs and is probably out for the season and some jerkoffs are trying to say he was running from the police or something.

http://i.imgur.com/vznB8VO.jpg

When you are driving, every time you are nice and let someone in front of you, you are being a dick to every single person behind you. Food for thought.

Wrong.

There's no reason the people behind me can't wait an extra 30 seconds or so. That's silly.

I multiply the number of people behind me by the time they will have to wait and compare that to the estimate of how long the person who is waiting will have to wait until another schmuck lets them in. I'm doing far more good by not letting them in.

Pest walks the walk on this. I could give examples but he'd rather I not.

SR sent me a free lower level ticket to the broncos Chiefs game last year where I met DT's son. Pretty awesome.

Does the price of my ticket to the titans game count?

This thread is an inspiration. Now I'm thinking about giving semen to my house cleaning lady.

I dropped a receipt today in a parking lot and didn't pick it up. I was very kind to that receipt and let it have its freedom.