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Responsibility to Strangers

Yesterday my friend of 43 years and I were out shopping.  It was rather windy and as soon as we pulled into our parking space she exclaimed “Oh, no!”, jumped out of the vehicle and chase a run-away shopping cart that was headed for the side of a brand new SUV.  She caught it in time, but I don’t think the owner had any idea she saved him his deductible…

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good karma

When you do something of this nature, and you don’t think of how it’s going to benefit you then you’ve done your job. The owner of that vehicle doesn’t need to know how lucky he is, what’s important is that your friend knows, that she gave him that luck by just being there. That, in itself, should be the reward

Michelle Nguyen | 10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Test

In life we will experience all kinds of tests and it doesn’t matter that the owner of the vehicle didn’t notice what happened as long as God noticed and that good Samaritan passed her test, that day was designed before she was even born right down to the very moment of the incident and God smiled on her and was proud that she passed the test.

Dee Rembert | 10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Why not

Wouldn’t you want someone to do the same for you?

Cynthia Ennes | 10 months, 2 weeks ago
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Singer/Administrator

Your friend will surely be blessed because she has a good heart and cares about others over herself. That’s a great story!

dana Galen | 10 months, 1 week ago
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lost

A woman called my parents’ house last night around midnight. She had found my wallet at the theatre. I didn’t even know it was gone. When I got the message, I went to pick it up immediately. Everything was there. Over $100 in cash, credit cards, everything. I felt so good about humanity after this happened to me.

anonymous | 10 months, 1 week ago
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god will bless her

Your 43 year old friend was a hero. She saw wrong ,something that wasn’t right and took action into fixing the situation. Saying that a the man deserves his brand new SUV all shiny and pretty. and that’s how it will stay. I will go and make sacarfice and gave him her heart. she is blessed.

Janessa jones | 10 months ago
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Nice

That was a nice thing to do. I wish she was in the parking lot the day my vehicle had a nice ding on the door!

Mike Lemoine | 10 months ago
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editor

This made me think about a tourism promotion back on the Gold Coast of Australia when I was a kid. Meter maids, women in scanty bikinis, would top off the meters on cars so tourists didn’t get a nasty surprise when they got back to their cars. A nice tussle between two arms of govt., the law and the dept. of tourism. And while I am not a meter maid in any shape or form, I often continue the tradition by topping up parking meters I see that are about to expire. But that’s illegal where I live. (I did it the other day near the national mall in DC.) What should I do? File this under no good deed goes unpunished and risk getting caught, or stop?

julie power | 10 months ago
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Being responsible

While at lunch with friends an elderly Gent with a cane sat down and I noticed the chair leg separating as he shifted his weight forward. I asked my friend to mention it to him. Promptly, my friend provided the Gent with another chair. After the Gent finished lunch he came over and said I was his Guardian Angel. He had just had two hip replacements. My friend was the real Angel as he made sure the Gent had a strong chair. Not only was it an act of kindness, it was an act of humility. It was a total act of responsibility to another human being. We all need to be responsible in all we do. This is a good format to make us all think what we can do daily to increase our sense of deeds to ourselves and others.

Bettie "Mac" Paul | 10 months ago
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Kindness is illegal?

It’s hard to imagine that our world makes it illegal to be helpful and kind. What business is it to anyone whether I add a quarter to someone elses parking meter just because I want to? What if, instead, I placed an envelope containing enough to pay a parking ticket on the car’s windshield? Would that be more acceptable?

Tami Merry | 9 months, 3 weeks ago
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