random acts of kindness

Everyday at innocent we look forward to opening up the [email protected] inbox. It's always full of great stuff you send us and inspiring stories. Here's just one story we received on Friday...

Hi There

Today I was walking down Strand Street and popped into Starbucks, looking for something to drink. My eyes wandered across some Innocent Smoothie products and landed on a Smoothie of the Month drink, which was made of passion fruit and lychees.

I thought that this smoothie looked interesting and decided to give it a try. I arrived at the till and was ready to pay for my chosen drink, when a notice was shown to me, which stated that I couldn't use my debit card.

I had no cash on me either and so was about to return my drink, when a fellow customer stopped me.

This lovely lady standing behind me (who was wearing a very vibrant shade of red lipstick) offered to pay for my drink. At first I was shocked (not believing what I was hearing, for it had never happened to me before) but then very grateful, after realizing that she was serious.

And so to this lovely lady, I would like to say a very big THANK YOU!

I commend her greatly, for the warmth and generosity of heart, which she showed towards me.

Olivia

Thanx :)

If you know the lady in vibrant red lipstick please let her know that Olivia sends a very big thank you from us for her kindness that day. If you fancy trying a random act of kindness yourself then this book is a great place to find some inspiration.

Go on, make somebody's day.

Comments

[katy]

That lady is a Joinee, has to be. Joinees agree to do random acts of kindness to people on Friday just because they can! It's based on a book by Danny Wallace called Join Me and there is a website (but I can't remember the address as I am very very sleepy)

[helen]

She def has to be a Joinee, or possibly someone trying it out for size, in which case she should consider joining Danny and co.
The website is: http://www.join-me.co.uk/ and it's blooming marvellous. I think everyone should try and do at least one random act of kindness a week!

[Shann]

Hi,

Today I noticed several cars parked in a metered parking lot had expired meters. I decided to buy time for each of the cars to prevent them from getting a parking ticket. I missed getting back to my meter in a timely fashion and found a $5 ticket on my car! Quite Amusing ...

[Arvind Devalia]

Hi everyone,

Great story about the lady in Starbucks wearing red lipstick :-)

Here are some more ideas for carrying out random acts of kindnesss:-

http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2007/01/31/carry-out-randoms-acts-of-kindness-daily/

Happy kindness spreading!

Arvind

[Steve Lovell]

Pity that the book on randon acts of kindness (Danny Wallace) is not given away for free at random! Are any of the proceeds given away to charity as a non random act of kindness? Not on your nelly! tut, tut :-(

[Tabitha]

What a great lady! Its good to hear there is still some human kindness left in the world!

I gave someone 20p once so they could use the loo at a train station ... but that's no way near as cool as a free smoothie.

Unless you really really need the loo that is.

[wu]

hi!!!!!!!!!!

[darragh]

my copy of the book arrived today, on the recommendation of this post. It's great...

And you're invited to give it away as a random act of kindness when you're done...

Really invigorated my day :)