Do something nice for somebody today
I'm getting my coffee at Weaver Street market this morning, just like every other morning. I go to get in line, and each line is looooong. Not a big deal. I get in line and the woman in front of me notices that all I have is coffee. She has a cart full of groceries, and two cute kids, and says, "All you have is coffee? - please get in front of me". I say thanks and I do so (I do the same thing there for other folks frequently - it is pretty much the norm at WSM).
Then the person in front of me finishes their order and the total is something over $200 for a very few groceries. There obviously was a probelm with the transaction and it seems it will be a while longer as the cashier tries to find out the problem. Not a huge concern to me, I'm under no real time pressure. But then I hear the woman behind me say to the cashier, "This guy in front of me is going to go ahead and leave - I'll be paying for his coffee." I turn around to look at her and she says, "I just made up a new holiday - today is national do something nice for somebody day". I smiled, said "thank you so much", and went on upstairs to work.
A small coffee at WSM is $1.63. She and I (and I think her kids as well) got way more what-a-great-way-to-start-the-day value than that. It was a real bargain.
So, do something nice for somebody today.
an interesting thing at the game last night . . .
A lady that sits several seats over from us was trying to get to her seat when her tub of popcorn slipped from her hand and the popcorn went flying. She looked absolutely disgusted. A man in the row in front of her, also heading to his seat, handed her his popcorn and insisted she take it when she politely refused. I thought, that was a very nice gesture. Then, I saw his hat read UK and his t-shirt read UK2K. I tapped him on the shoulder (he was sitting in front of us) and said, "I never thought I'd see a Kentucky fan do something like that for a Duke fan!" He responded, "We have to look out for each other!" Turns out he and his friend were up from Atlanta (his friend in a Ga Tech polo) to see their first game in Cameron. The UK guy said he had gone to the UK/Vanderbilt game recently and now he was in Cameron and he was just blown away and so excited. He asked us if we came to all the games, I told him I'd been coming to them all my life. He thought that was great. Not sure who he was pulling for, I think he's just a big college bball fan, but he was clapping at every one of Kyle's crazy 3s last night. His friend wasn't so impressed with the game, understandably, but he seemed to thoroughly enjoy the Bouncing Bulldogs!
So, I have to admit, that Kentucky fan was a very nice guy.