Article: Generosity when you least expect
A helping hand from the person you least expect always brightens the day. Yesterday, it came from a lady at the cashier in SJMC. My usual visits at Tun Hussein Oon cost not more than RM120. Mindful of my pocket and the extra charge a visit to SJMC would entail, I brought a little more than usual.
But the bill came to three hundred dollars while I had two. The hospital ATM machine rejected my card, so sheepishly, I hoped they would let me settle with what I have now, and pay the rest tomorrow.
But a lady was standing in my place when I returned. This lady was meticulous. She went through every bit of her bill with a fine tooth-comb, using her handphone to calculate and her credit card to pay. I thought of how she was holding the line behind..
In between my negotiating with the cashier, this lady stole glances at my direction, as if wondering why I looked the way I did. Then, before she departed, the lady pointed at me and then spoke to the cashier again.
Later, the cashier explained. That lady paid for my balance.
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Aww.. That was so so sweet of her! I always feel indebted whenever somebody I meet at a restaurant pays for my food.
But that lady was a stranger to you! What are the odds..??!
Great you share this - gives hope that despite all that the bad things that goes on and gets highlighted in the media everywhere in the world, it still is after all…’a wonderful world..’
I hope I can remember to do a deed that will make this ‘..a wonderful world..’ for someone, somewhere.
“We need not do great things, just small things with great love.” - Mother Teresa
I believe that lady (in the full sense of the word, ‘lady’) has great love.
“…one act of random kindness at a time….”
Yvonne,
You know, the weird thing is that people usually would ask me for money, instead of giving…heh.
Like some sort of bogus charity foundation approach me with pics of sick children, fake info, asked me to donate, taxi drivers who asked me to pay more, pasar malam food vendor who charges me more, and so on. They usually made ’super kasihan’ faces. So I paid. What to do?
So do I look like a soft marshmallow ar? Or too honest or something? Ppl seem to target me ar.
Gracie
Is really touched if there’s someone kind enough to saved us from misery that lady really help without asking for pay back! Thats really a rare sight nowadays.