Pass it on
- By Tina Griffith
- Published 06/17/2008
Tina Griffith
I love the summer, Halloween, animals, chocolate and music. That is the basis of knowing me. I also like to write and travel a little.
There really are nice people left in the world. For a while I wondered actually. I mean there are so many bad things going on in the world and that is almost all you hear about. How rude Americans are, or how fat they are. But those are all generalizations and stereotypes. Often unfortunately we humans fall into believing them. Its in our nature.
But I am here to tell you that there is niceness left in the world. And everyone needs to follow that "do unto others as you want them to do for you" thing.
Last night I had to work (at the nice Italian restaurant that I waitress at). It was my dad's birthday. He would have been 51 this year. There was a buffet for 100, a golf outing for a church that the owner attended. I am not one to like buffets. They are easy but boring. And I don't like being bored.
As I was taking orders for coffee to go with the dessert a man (it was 90% men, golf is I suppose) asked me how big my cell phone was. It was really an I-Pod holder, but I can see how one could get confused. Then he gave me his door prize.
It was an I-Pod holder, wristlett, and photo envelope. I thanked him over and over, I don't often get presents from customers although it does happen a lot where I work. The restaurant is located in a well-to-do neighborhood, and I'm not.
This morning when I checked out the things I had received through the name of the store on-line, as I wasn't' quite sure what they even were, I found
out that they are from a high end line of leather products. Made for people with money. The little I-Pod case cost around $25. My jaw dropped. Then how much do the other things cost? Did this man know what he was giving away? If his wife would have been offended at the gift (which is what his friend said to him) he could have sold it.
Then again, the grand prize of the raffle was a 50-something inch flat screen HDTV. OK then, he got the cheap door prize. But to me it is like getting the free TV. The purses I buy are from Target and K-Mart. I couldn't imagine spending that on a wristlett.
So now that I am sitting next to my over a hundred dollars worth of accessories I feel the need to pass it on. Maybe if it weren't my dad's birthday, and I didn't think that maybe he was the angel that brought it to me, I wouldn't feel that way.
I don't have much money. None that is really spare. And I don't have any physical things to give anyone that are not junk. So the best think I can do is give a nice old couple a free dessert at the restaurant and hope that they pass it on. I hope though that anyone who reads this will do one nice thing for a stranger, or even someone that you know that isn't a relative or close friend. I do little things all the time, but I never know if it is just me or if it does have a domino effect.
The way I see it when someone does something nice for someone else, then they are both happy. Happy people are nicer than just everyday, bored, tired, waiting for a day off people and are more likely to do something nice for someone else.
But I am here to tell you that there is niceness left in the world. And everyone needs to follow that "do unto others as you want them to do for you" thing.
Last night I had to work (at the nice Italian restaurant that I waitress at). It was my dad's birthday. He would have been 51 this year. There was a buffet for 100, a golf outing for a church that the owner attended. I am not one to like buffets. They are easy but boring. And I don't like being bored.
As I was taking orders for coffee to go with the dessert a man (it was 90% men, golf is I suppose) asked me how big my cell phone was. It was really an I-Pod holder, but I can see how one could get confused. Then he gave me his door prize.
It was an I-Pod holder, wristlett, and photo envelope. I thanked him over and over, I don't often get presents from customers although it does happen a lot where I work. The restaurant is located in a well-to-do neighborhood, and I'm not.
This morning when I checked out the things I had received through the name of the store on-line, as I wasn't' quite sure what they even were, I found
Then again, the grand prize of the raffle was a 50-something inch flat screen HDTV. OK then, he got the cheap door prize. But to me it is like getting the free TV. The purses I buy are from Target and K-Mart. I couldn't imagine spending that on a wristlett.
So now that I am sitting next to my over a hundred dollars worth of accessories I feel the need to pass it on. Maybe if it weren't my dad's birthday, and I didn't think that maybe he was the angel that brought it to me, I wouldn't feel that way.
I don't have much money. None that is really spare. And I don't have any physical things to give anyone that are not junk. So the best think I can do is give a nice old couple a free dessert at the restaurant and hope that they pass it on. I hope though that anyone who reads this will do one nice thing for a stranger, or even someone that you know that isn't a relative or close friend. I do little things all the time, but I never know if it is just me or if it does have a domino effect.
The way I see it when someone does something nice for someone else, then they are both happy. Happy people are nicer than just everyday, bored, tired, waiting for a day off people and are more likely to do something nice for someone else.
