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Nov. 25th, 2009 01:50 amI was telling someone about a tradition ex-hubby and I picked up in San Francisco, and it was as if I saw it from the outside, and saw that it was maybe a little weird.
We moved from Boston to SF on three weeks' notice. We got to the toll booth on the Bay Bridge, and the attendant said the people in the car ahead of us had paid for us. It seemed like a good omen at the time. (Little did I know that within months, I'd be trying to cook a dozen starving start-up geeks Thanksgiving dinner with $15 to my name, but hey, I got some awfully good stories out of the whole thing.) Anyway, ever since then, I've paid for the car behind me at a toll booth whenever I could afford to. I think the people who did it for me and crism that day in SF saw our Massachusetts plates and were from New England, maybe; or else they just wanted to welcome the newbies. I like to think it's one of those things that people experience or hear about and start doing themselves... like maybe one out of every ten people I pay for will start doing it, and so on and so on. My mom and dad do it at the toll booths in Florida every time they go to Disney World, and they say, "And some Disney magic for the person behind us!"
My Starbucks peeps say that every other week or so, this one guy comes through the drive-in, pays with a $50, and says to apply it to each following person as long as it lasts.
So, friends list, my question to you today is: do you guys have or know of any nifty random acts of kindness like these?
We moved from Boston to SF on three weeks' notice. We got to the toll booth on the Bay Bridge, and the attendant said the people in the car ahead of us had paid for us. It seemed like a good omen at the time. (Little did I know that within months, I'd be trying to cook a dozen starving start-up geeks Thanksgiving dinner with $15 to my name, but hey, I got some awfully good stories out of the whole thing.) Anyway, ever since then, I've paid for the car behind me at a toll booth whenever I could afford to. I think the people who did it for me and crism that day in SF saw our Massachusetts plates and were from New England, maybe; or else they just wanted to welcome the newbies. I like to think it's one of those things that people experience or hear about and start doing themselves... like maybe one out of every ten people I pay for will start doing it, and so on and so on. My mom and dad do it at the toll booths in Florida every time they go to Disney World, and they say, "And some Disney magic for the person behind us!"
My Starbucks peeps say that every other week or so, this one guy comes through the drive-in, pays with a $50, and says to apply it to each following person as long as it lasts.
So, friends list, my question to you today is: do you guys have or know of any nifty random acts of kindness like these?
