I went to our favorite car wash early this morning to have my wife’s car washed and detailed to get rid of the tree sap accumulated on it. Tree sap on your car is one of the hazards of parking outside because you’re using your garage as a storage facility (it’s a California thing.) I’ve been promising her for weeks now, and today I was determined to get it done. I was told it would take about an hour and a half so, with Kindle in hand, I walked over to a nearby plaza to grab a coffee at a bagel shop and read my Jonathan Kellerman “Alex Delaware” novel while I waited. Standing in line at the bagel counter, there was a young Asian woman in front of me and when her order was complete she left and I ordered my coffee. I handed the cash to the server but she said it was already paid for…by that young woman ahead of me. I was kinda flabbergasted but truly appreciated that totally unexpected random act of kindness. Her kindness motivated me to pay it forward to someone else with my next opportunity.THAT random gesture of benevolence from one person to another is truly what America is and who we are as citizens. In this world of political divisiveness and irrational hatred of “the other side,” we’ve forgotten our self-effacing propensity to help others. I’m so very grateful for that reminder and hope that we can once again find kindness and courtesy, and treat one another with respect …and peace.
Oh …and having a pretty woman randomly buy you coffee makes you think “yeah, I still got it” …but since I never had it, to begin with, I was very flabbergasted indeed.