When you go to the Stone Mountain drive-thru coffee shop downtown they give you a punch card and after 10 coffees you get one free. I always save my cards for when I don't have the correct change or am getting a little low on money. Right now I have 4 of them.
Yesterday morning when I was waiting at the drive-thru I thought I'd better start using them - it's just silly to keep 40 coffees worth of cards hanging around until I haven't correct change...it could be weeks before circumstances aligned such that I'd deem it appropriate to use one. But instead of using it for my $1.37 small black coffee I handed it to Tracy and asked her to use it for the next person's drink.
She was pleased to do it, it made my day...and this morning she said the guy behind me was floored that anyone would do such a thing.
If it sounds like I'm disproportionately proud of myself for doing this little bitty nice thing - I am. Faking humility at this point would be irresponsible. I think it's great that it occurred to me and fantastic that I did it and I hope that more thoughts like this start popping in. I also hope I'm vigilant enough to listen to me.
It cost nothing and people got to be happy about it.
Heck, it's been two days and I'm still happy about it.
1 comment:
This is fantastic. I'm a little stunned that you let go of a free drink but oh so proud!
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