Coincidence and the kindness of strangers

[BrokenQuill92]

We're very low on grocery money this month, and we just ran into three very kind people. First an old man gave us two dozen steaks and three gallons of apple juice because he bought too much for a family dinner. Then a trucker said a bunch of perfectly good pork roasts were going to be tossed because of some sort of filing error, and GFS didn't need the order. So he was just giving away meat. And we have nearly 300lbs of roasts in our deep freezer! And on top of it all a vender at the famer's market grew a surplus in eggplant and they weren't selling well because they were too small. Now we have a giant crate of eggplant. Mom is calling everyone and telling them we met angels. (Insert eye roll here) And while my eyes are a little round at this, it's totally just weird and people are simply better than we think they are some times. Today was weird

[abaris]

Boy, I could need that sort of kindness. Speaking of being low on funds - as always since the big crisis of '08.

[brewer]

That's very cool. 

Freezer don't fail us now!

[J a c k]

That was nice to read. Thanks for sharing

[BrokenQuill92]

I wish I'd taken down somebody's contact information.

[The Valkyrie]

Nice to know there are still plenty of good people about in this time of Trumpites and selfish vermin.

[Godscreated]

I'm glad your families needs were met, tell your mom that GC believes the same thing. I haven't heard about your dad in a while I was gone from the forum for a few months hope he is doing well.

GC

[Edwardo Piet]

Nice to know there are still plenty of good people about in this time of Trumpites and selfish vermin.

Which are synonyms.

[BrokenQuill92]

I'm glad your families needs were met, tell your mom that GC believes the same thing. I haven't heard about your dad in a while I was gone from the forum for a few months hope he is doing well.

GC

I'm kinda mad at him the moment. (His health is quite well. He's well enough to be in big trouble with the women in the house)

[Astonished]

I don't suppose anyone bothered to query them about their religious leanings? LOL. I bet we would have gotten a few surprises.

I used to work at a gas station at night and when it came time to throw out the day-old donuts, I would always give them to the homeless people that hung around the area. When my boss said to stop doing that, I would put them in a paper bag and lower it gently into the trash can and one of them would grin and nod knowingly and scoop it up out of the trash, still protected by that bag, and without any liability on my employer because he's not liable if people dumpster-dive for food as opposed to me handing them stale and 'potentially dangerous' food. Generosity doesn't come from religion, and in most of these cases, it sounds like a matter of pure practicality. I hate wasting food and if I can give it to someone who wants or needs it, I'm damn well going to give it to them even if it means going behind someone's back who disagrees with the sentiment for reasons of greed and cynicism.