Pay it forward

Hopefully I'll have time to make a full blog post later, but for now I just wanted to share with you a story I heard on the Morning Zoo on WNCI this morning:

A woman wrote in to the Morning Zoo to tell them about an experience she recently had. She said that this past year has been rough for her, as both she and her husband lost their jobs. Her husband has been working at a temp agency, and she has been cleaning houses part-time. So they were really excited to get their tax refund in the mail. As soon as they got it, they deposited it and went to Walmart (the one I go to!). She said they 'went crazy' in Walmart, picking out clothes and tons of household items that were falling apart at their house, making them depressed since, until this day, they couldn't afford to replace these broken-down things. When they were finished, they went to check out and found out it had totaled $609, which is obviously a ton, especially to a family that is struggling. However, the check would cover it. Unfortunately, they found out that the check hadn't cleared yet, so her credit card was declined. She called the credit card company and they told her it would be another 24 hours before it cleared. She said she was incredibly embarrassed, so she was speaking with the manager about holding the items for her until the next day. While this happened, the manager asked her to please wait a minute, and went to speak with the customer behind her in line (I think the customer called him over or something). A few minutes later, the manager came back, gave her a receipt, and told this woman that her entire order ($609!) had been taken care of by the customer behind her in line. The woman ran to catch up with this other woman in the parking lot, and she said, "I think you've made a mistake..." and the woman replied, "Just let it happen. I'm just trying to pay it forward." and with that, she got in her car and drove away. So this woman who wrote into WNCI was basically letting people know that people really do pay it forward. She said something like, "Obviously I can't pay for someone's $600 grocery bill, but I'm so determined to find something I can do to pay it forward."

Is that not just the greatest story ever? I cried haha. Little stories like this just make my day :)