Kitchen Help
And that is priceless. I wish the greedy high up CEO muckity-mucks in their fancy suits and nice cars could find the joy of helping out their fellow human beings… maybe with just a bowl of soup or a salmon special. They say that those who have less money to give, actually give more to the poor than the ultra rich.
Some rich folks do give. Bill Gates, after creating his monopolistic oligarchy, put together a foundation, Ok his new wife was behind it, which gives out one and a half billion dollars a year.
Ya know, Ryan’s sentiment is good but he ought to be more honest about picking up the tab.
Normally, restaurants have to toss out botched or returned food orders (health code) and you wouldn’t want the guy coming and asking for meal rejects in the future (not allowed to give).
There’s something I’ve always wanted to do but have forgotten about until I saw this comic. And that is to tell the waiter/waitress serving us a meal at a restaurant that we’ll anonymously pay for another couple’s meal as well.
Thanks for the fine example, Brig! Ya’ done your good deed of the day!
Back in our hippie hitchhikin’ days, Patrick (then Strider) and I (then Rainbow) were treated royally by a kind lady in a diner near Joplin, MO who knew we couldn’t pay. I thought of her so much during the tornado crisis there and wondered if she’s still alive and made it through. I expect we’ll run into her somewhere up the Road.
stick… those are particulars. I don’t think the shabby fellow would want anybody to buy him a free expensive dinner. But he’ll take a “mistake.”
I always thought it funny how Mr. Gates found few ways to share his wealth… until his wife came into the picture.
Pete…. thank you. Did you hear the story last night on the NBC national news where a good-deed-doer walked into a Wal-mart type place and paid off all the lay-aways they had. I cried when I heard that story. Merry Christmas, Good-deed-doer!
EofO (Rainbow)… we meet kind souls in this life…. I consider you one of’em!
I like what ryan has done.
Whenever I am on the cash register at work, and someone cant find their change, or does not quite have enough money, I tell them that it’s ok and pay the difference myself.
It always feels good to do this.
Squid… What are good are change trays (when tip jars are not called for, of course), where customers can drop any change they care to, and others can use it when short.
Brig, I agree whole heartedly about those who have less being more generous. I spent a few years living on the streets when I was younger and vividly remember how furiously happy I was when someone gave me cheeseburgers. The people who would make eye contact and occasionally smile made my life so much more bearable during those times. Now that I’m no longer on the street, though not a bill gates, I still try to remember that time and pass on what I can to those that I can help. I live on a relatively small fixed budget…but I remember what it was like when even having anything seemed out of reach….this year is the year I’m finally able to stand up and no longer need the assistance of the food bank to make it through each month, so now I’m adding 10 dollars in food items to my shopping each month to drop off at the place I use to go. Its a small town food bank and they struggle because they don’t get the big city style donations. I’m so happy to finally be able to help…though 10 dollars in food doesn’t seem like much, I know what its like to come into that foodbank on a day with little or no donations and you see bare shelves and you wonder what your going to eat that last week of the month.
I got creative when it came to cooking things and I rarely actually skipped more then one or two days…but I remember how much worse it could have been without that foodbank at least having something. Sometimes eggs, sometimes milk, sometimes tuna….but always something.
Once you’ve been at the bottom, and you’ve been lifted even a little bit by the heartfelt generosity of a stranger…your capacity for similiar compassion is raised too. For those who’ve always had more then enough through luck of birth into a higher economic class, through their own hard work, or whatever…if you’ve always had enough…sometimes its harder to feel compassionate and understanding for those who didn’t have your lucky life. Its hard to say why the super rich aren’t as generous as the less financially well off are… whether it be monetary or emotionally.
But we can all dwell on the fact that the super rich ‘don’t get it’ or we can do something positive…though we can’t change those who have little/no compassion…we can change what we do. Be it small or big, paying forward a generous spirit and heart helps to make the world a better place.
It’s just my opinion, but I think that the reason the poor are more inclined to give to the even poorer is because they know what it’s like. <3
Heather… Congratulations on your successes.
I think the reason that those with less give more (proportionately) to the poor is that they are closer to them in style of life, if not having crossed over altogether, and so relate and connect more. The rich and very wealthy are much more distant socially, societally and likely have a harder time relating and bonding with the homeless. They tend to live by different rules which reward self-oriented personal accomplishments. Its a matter of societal relevance.
That customer-in-need sure looks a lot like Pacino.
Thanks Stick. Being a little better off today then yesterday is always good…but better for me in the long run to remember to be humble and to remember to be thankful. Sure I don’t live in a mansion or wear million dollar earings….but I’m much more grateful that my cupboard isn’t bare at the end of the month then I would be if I had started from a different point in the wealth scale.