A while back, I fell on my walk to work. The woman that I wave at every day but don’t know came running over and called 911, much to my dismay. According to a couple of others who also stopped, it looked like I may have dislocated my elbow.
I had a heart issue and no health insurance, a man in Tampa paid my bill for me. – Scott 👍 Awesome feeling today when I went to Asda (Walmart supermarket) and met a lady in a wheelchair scooter with her son. I took out half an hour to say hello and listen to their stories…
When I shopping one day, the person helping me was clearly in a foul mood. Considering I hate clothes shopping, it was a precarious situation. I took a deep breath, smiled, and told her she seemed tired, was everything ok? She poured out her heart about how she was working two jobs and going to…
You often talk about the positive influences of teachers on Ripple Kindness, and I couldn’t agree more, and I want to share how a teacher has helped me. I’m a student and I was struggling recently with an issue that I didn’t feel comfortable sharing with my family. I have a teacher who is a very…
Recently, my cousin and his wife had a beautiful baby boy. Sadly when born, he was not well and required emergency surgery. They are in a different country to me, and I wanted to help them but wasn’t sure what to do. I read that it is comforting to the parents of a baby in…
Driving a 1700 mile trip home from the final arrangements for someone who was very close to me, I was at a restaurant/gas station to fill up on gas and coffee to continue home. I received a phone call from home and I just broke down and cried like a twit because my heart was…
This past weekend I had an amazing opportunity to do something completely out of my comfort zone, give free hugs to random people in the heart of the Magnificent Mile on Michigan Avenue. A friend of mine turned me on to the idea; although, hesitant at first I accept. I accepted because I want to…
So I work at an autopart store and today I had the most amazing thing happen. So this old lady comes in and I greet her and ask if she needs any help. Well her car battery turned out to be bad and she needed a new one. So I looked it up and it…
George Waters Middle School recently installed a Little Free Library. The goals is to encourage students and people in the community to read more and to have access to reading material. The ideas is that people can take a book that interests them and they leave one behind that they have already enjoyed!
I went into the local Lifeline shop yesterday to get some clothes for my young children. I saw a man there with some children’s books under his arm and he was looking at some kitchen items. Most items in the shop are between $1-5. He kept returning to this one particular kitchen item and I…
My 8-year-old daughter and I were out to lunch this last Friday at Panda Express. We both had quite a bit of food and she wasn’t able to eat it all. I gave her a couple of options of either saving it for dinner, give it to her sister later or she could give to…
When I was working the evening shift (I work as a cashier) there was couple who immediately apologised when it was their turn to place their items on the conveyor belt. The man said, “sorry, but you’re going to have to work a bit extra because we’re going to pay some with a debit card and…