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13th February 2015, 18:11
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In May of 1991 I got in a terrible accident where I flew through a windshield and totaled my vehicle. It took me months to recover and I was just a single working mother with 2 young boys. That winter I was driving on bald tires in the car I had managed to come up with while working for minimum wage at a local grocery store. There was a young man who worked as a box boy and had just recently graduated from high school. He was short, very thin, and not what most young girls his age were after. I remember him lamenting over not being able to get a girlfriend and he was always flirting. As we worked with him we began to realize when we sent him for a price check that he had graduated from school somehow not having learned to read! We also came to know that his home life was not very good either.*
Finally our Christmas party for the employees came around that year. I went and was having a great time. We had played several games, great food etc. then we got to the gift exchange where everyone had brought and was to receive a small gift from someone. We get to the end and I think I hear my name, but I wasn't really paying attention. I hear it again. Yes, they are calling me up to the front of the room. So I go up there, and there is standing this young man I work with. They roll out this huge box. Guess what was in it? Four brand new tires for my car. Somehow this young man who just seemed like the last person on earth I would have expected this from had got 4 new tires for my car! I'm pretty sure this may be the most surprised I had ever been in my life. I looked like one of those people you see on game shows who just won someone big, jumping up and down and blabbering on like an idiot.*
I will never forget Joey for this. It brings tears to my eyes even now. He probably doesn't even think about this anymore, but I think about it all the time. Random acts of kindness can change the world.*
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13th February 2015, 18:18
#17
Gorgeous , thats the kind of act of kindness i love .. i felt that as i read the words , very moving and very loving!! xx
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14th February 2015, 03:33
#18
Heartwarming even as a reader Spiritwind>>>thanks for the tank filler today
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4th March 2015, 10:26
#19
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4th March 2015, 10:30
#20
The cardboard sign he was holding made him look like a beggar, until you look close enough to read it: I HAVE a HOME, I HAVE a JOB, COULD YOU USE an EXTRA $5.00?
Bob Blackley celebrated his birthday by giving away $750 to strangers on the corner of Peters Creek and Silas Creek parkway in Winston-Salemg. This is the second year Blackley has given money on the street for his birthday.
Bob Blackley spent his 58th birthday Friday standing on the corner of Peters Creek and Silas Creek parkways holding a cardboard sign.
Cleanshaven and dressed in a bright orange T-shirt, cargo shorts and dark sunglasses, Blackley had a simple message: “I HAVE A HOME, I HAVE A JOB, COULD YOU USE AN EXTRA $5.00?”
A retired special needs teacher from Walnut Cove Elementary School, Blackley had withdrawn $750 in $5 bills from his credit union account and gave one to anyone who would take it.
“Who can’t use an extra $5?” Blackley asked.
Some motorists tried to ignore him; others sought him out, circling back around the parking lot for a greenback.
Still others, like Angel Queen of Lexington, parked their cars and got out to speak to Blackley.
"He gave me $5 and I had to stop to get his picture.” Queen said. “I’m going to post this to Facebook.”
“I did a double take. How many times do you see someone on the corner, look the other way, and not read the sign? Nine times out of 10 I look the other way.”
One man returned and handed Blackley a store-bought card that simply said “Happy Birthday, Bobby,” along with $3 in change.
Blackley said two police officers stopped to find out what he was doing. One told him, “I don’t know what to do about you out here. I’ve never seen anyone giving money away,” Blackley said.
“He just asked me to move over into the grass so that I don’t get hurt in traffic,” he added.
It took him a little more than three hours to give the $750 away.
This is the second year that Blackley has given away cash on his birthday. And it runs in the family. Blackley’s wife, Carol, spent her birthday in February with their 8-year-old grandson, Gabe Sullivan, giving away gift certificates to customers at the Aldi grocery store on Peters Creek Parkway.
“We try to teach him something,” Bob Blackley said.
Blackley said there’s a bit of competiveness between him and his wife.
“I think she did $700 on her birthday, so I had to do $750,” he said.
But the two also help one another.
“We help fund one another,” he said. “I gave her $350 for her birthday, and she gave me $350 on my birthday. My dream is to win the lottery so I can travel across the state to give away $100 bills.”
Motorists commonly asked, “Why are you doing this?” to which Blackley responded, “It’s my birthday. You’ll be there one day.”
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4th March 2015, 19:03
#21
A customer walked into his pizza shop and changed Philadelphia with $1 and a single Post-it note.
http://www.upworthy.com/a-customer-w...it-note?c=ufb1
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5th March 2015, 09:16
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5th March 2015, 09:29
#23