Acts of kindness

So...last night I was talking to my fiends who's family lives in Biloxi. No worries though, no one was hurt and everyone survived Katrina. Their homes were destroyed and what wasn't torn to matchsticks was flooded and now home to mold and massive stench. But, all and all, they are in good spirits considering all that has happened. The point of this is that my friend was heading back because her grandfather pasted away last week (health issues), so she was driving back home for the funeral, as well as to help out her family recoop their losses in the aftermath.

On her way back she was running out of gas, the red light was on, and the needle was below the empty line on the gas gage. She had NO money in her wallet as she pulled into the last gas station. She scrounged up a 3 quarters, 2 dimes and the rest in pennies to make a dollar twenty. She walked up to the cashier and said, "I'm sorry, but I need a buck twenty in gas and I have to pay you in pennies."

The man behind her overheard her and pulled out 4 dollars and said here, take this. She denied the offer, but he insisted. He told her he was from FL and he was here as a volunteer from the Red Cross and it was his job to help. She took the money and was thinking that she was just praying to GOD that if she could just make it to the station without running out of gas everything would be OK, funny how things work out.

Actually, it gets better. When she walks out to her car, the man walks over to her and pulls out his credit card and tells her to get the money back from the clerk and says that he is going to fill her car up. She once again tells him no, but he wont hear it. She goes inside and the man fills her car up and pays for a full tank of gas for this stranger in need. Not only does he pay for the gas on his credit card, but he lets her keep the 4 dollars in cash.

Sometimes you never know when help will be offered to you, just remember there is never anything wrong with accepting it. It may mean the difference between life and death.

Peace,
DeMo