What was your last Random Act of Kindness?

I try to do something every day

I make a point of letting people go ahead of me in parking lots and I always wish my customers a nice day. I need to do a lot more and I think everybody should. It's amazing how considerate behavior from a stranger can make somebody else's day.

I don't know if I did anything kind for anyone today. I didn't leave the house except to go get my daughter this evening. I cooked dinner and did laundry. There, that was nice.

I am not sure if I did a RAOK today. The only thing I can think of that I did was not really random. I brought my brother and his girl friend some milk, eggs, tuna, water and cereal. They are both on disability and money is an issue so they do run out of food.

I thought about this alot today. I happened to see EVAN ALMIGHTY and one of the messages was that you can change the world with one random act of kindness.

I made sure to stop today for a couple taking pictures on the Michigan Ave bridge and asked if they would like their picture taken. They of course did!

I must do more tomorrow!

"Did you do something kind (Yes) and out of the ordinary (No) for someone today?"

The simplest kindness one can offer another is a simple smile. I often make a game out of smiling at people in the supermarket, particularly in the hour right after work. The tension that people carry is very evident in their faces yet few fail to smile back if you make eye contact and smile. You can see the tension fall away.

"A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give." ~Author Unknown

I can't remember, what's that tell you.

This morning, I held the door for two people while getting coffee at the store. I also let a hurried woman go ahead of me to get coffee. I don't really consider them ROAK's though... just being polite lol.

Friday when we went shopping. I was able to hold the door open for people, but I'm with Pamela, I think it's just being polite. :o)

Here's a 10, thanks for posting at Up All Nite Café.

Hey Renita. I can't honestly answer your question.

But, thanks for posting to my group: Group with No Theme

It wasn't my last one but one of my recent favorite ones. We have a young girl in church that is one of our junior cantors and she has such an endearing voice and sweet presence. One day I was in a local store and I saw her but she didn't see me so I approached her to thank her for gift of song and how I much enjoy when she sings the liturgical selections.
She appears to be a quiet and shy child but she smiled so brightly and thanked me.

I agree with Sandi, I find a way each day to reach out and if I can't make it outside I post here or at Network of Strength.

I understand what some of you are saying about not considering it to be necessarily an act of kindness when you are just being polite, but honestly, many people have NO CLUE how to be polite any more. Very sad.

People are forgetting simple manners so it is surely one's choice to be kind..it's not mandatory.

I hold doors open all the time; I do let people get in front of me in traffic now and then; I don't pick up money off the street and if I find change in vending machines I leave it there for someone else to find and take joy from. I do a few little things -- some which have immediate payback: being nice to a clerk, for example; making a joke -- it smooths interactions and keeps people smiling.

I open doors for people on a regular basis - it's just one of those things I do. Last Thursday at the doctor's office, I picked up some papers that the doctor's mother had dropped and couldn't bend over to get. Hurt me, but she couldn't have done it, period. I've sent out five or six surprise RAOKs to fellow couponers on my coupon list - other people post to the list when they send them out, but I like for them to be a surprise. Since Kid was home sick from school today, I didn't get out, but if I had, I'd have said "thank you" at least a dozen times, because it's one of those things that costs me nothing and sometimes makes someone else's day.

Don't think I did anything today. I was especially friendly though. I smiled at the guy in the parking lot, spoke a little to an old lady standing by a car in the parking lot and at customers in the store. I was feeling good and it showed.