Saturday, April 18, 2015

Day four - Unexpected Kindness

This morning I had a nice experience of my own that I would like to share.  My son and I have the idea that we will start biking to work and to school, so I took our bikes in for a check up.  I was expecting a fairly large bill for this and I also thought I would have to leave the bikes.  On both counts I was wrong.  Kudos to Montlake Bike Shop!  I had a person working on each bike, they both needed minor adjustments and I was out of there in about 30 minutes and for less than I though one of the bikes would have cost me.  

But that is not even the good part.  When I was taking the bikes back to my car a man started chatting with me about the bikes.  He then asked if I had a son and how old he was.    I told him 12 and he asked me to wait as he wanted to give me some baseball cards to give to him.  He then proceeded to give me handful of baseball cards to give to my son.  He said he hoped it might inspire him to start collecting.  I don't know that will happen, but I thought it was a very kind thing to do.

I appreciate each kindness that is shared.  I think they have a ripple effect that is positive and uplifting.  


2 comments:

Unknown said...

People of goodness are drawn to other people of goodness....and what a kind gesture from someone!

Unknown said...

Thanks for the great insight David! It was a very nice morning yesterday.