Pay it forward experiences

[Degusaurusrex]

Exactly what it says. Give me all those sappy ass moments. Help you've gotten, help you've passed on. The things you'll never forget because someone was kind and really helped you out.

Mine came in the saving grace of people banding together to help me out with child supplies when things were rough. I cried, no shame.

I once bought a small handful of drinks and groceries for a struggling mom of three, a friend of mine at the time, and her reaction was just heartwarming.

Now, be sappy with me because I know I'm not the only one.

SPREAD THE LOVE AND THE FEELS.

[Blythe]

This is a damn good thread. :)

One time, a friend of my father's suddenly gave us a car (literally no warning that they were going to give us that) when our truck died. This was years ago, but we still have that car and we are ridiculously grateful for it to this day.

Once time I picked up someone's lunch tab at a fast food place when I was behind them in line waiting to order my own food. That was a good day. Did that a coupla months ago. ^^

[Esoterica]

My doctor bought dinner for me and an entire table of my friends and family. We took the money it would have cost, and gave it to the waitress.

[LouLaRey]

I remember back when I was on foodstamps so, probably a good fifteen years ago now. Anyway, your foodstamps always reload on your card on the same day, every month. Well something (I don't remember what) happened and my card didn't get reloaded that day, but I didn't realize it, because it always got reloaded.

So I go to the store, got a full cart of groceries, if you've ever been on gov't support you know it, the cart of everything you've been needing for two weeks but you've been subsisting on the bare minimum because that's what you've got the money for. I go up to the checkout, my toddler son in the cart. And my card is declined. I panic, because we need the food there's some stuff at home but it's mostly beans and a couple of ramen packs, but there was this lovely lady behind me who just offered to pay for the whole cart load. Hundred dollars plus worth of groceries. I started crying, and I didn't get her name but I'm still grateful to her. I try to pay it forward as I can, even if I don't have the money to just buy a cart load of groceries for someone.