Wow… have I had a productive day. I’m hoping that my kind gestures will come back to me some day.
This afternoon I went after a run away dog. I live in a huge condo complex where people drive like homicidal maniacs (Hello? Speed Limits!). It’s not safe for people to walk around our parking lot, let alone a bouncy dog who is enjoying her moment of freedom.
One of the dogs in our complex some how escaped from her home. I recognized the dog because yesterday I was talking to her owner and ANOTHER one of his dogs wiggled out of it’s collar and ran off so I ended up holding on to one of the three dogs while he went chasing after the runaway. I also learned that the dog I brought back home escaped once before and disappeared for an entire year until she some how got brought back to a shelter in NYC and a chip in her ear reunited her with her family.
Anyway… My husband was out on our balcony and noticed a small black dog running around with no owner in site. I asked him what the dog looked like and he said it was a small black dog. I had a feeling it was one of the “Houdini” dogs from across the street. Being the animal lover that I am I armed myself with my dogs collar, leash and a dog treat.
To make a long story short I was able to lure the dog back into her building and right to her family’s front door. Mind you I don’t know these people at all. I just happened to talk to the son for the first time yesterday.
Do you want to hear the kicker… she didn’t even realize the dog was gone! Not only that she said a quick “Thank you” and shut the door. ???!!! Really, I wasn’t expecting her to slobber all over me thanking me like crazy. But how about a smile and some form of appreciation in your voice instead of “I didn’t know she was gone…get in here (to the dog)… Thank you” (shuts the door). Jeepers!
Next on my agenda today was to do a “Grooms Survival Kit” personalized can for a customer of mine. She has ordered favors from me for her engagement party dinner and personalized cocoa for her December wedding. I figured the least I could do is make her this can. She’s actually waiting for me to send her the invoice so she can pay me but I was going to send it to her as a surprise and not charge her for it. Humm…I hope she’s not reading my blog! LOL!
Just a few moments ago I finished making 170 personalized buttons for the Relay for Life team for our dear Kasey’s family. OUCH! My hand is killing me. The buttons are done totally by hand. She asked me to make the buttons for the team again this year and she too is waiting for me to send her the invoice to pay me. I already told her they were paid for (meaning I wasn’t going to charge her). Then my husband told me to tell her that he was going to “pay” for them but she wouldn’t hear of it. She’s expecting the invoice for the buttons to be sent to her and she’s not expecting the buttons until mid-May. After working on them for hours they are all done, packaged up and ready to go out in tomorrow’s mail, and she doesn’t know anything about it. I want to surprise her.
So there are three acts of kindness I did today. I actively do random acts of kindness not because I am hoping good Karma comes back my way (although that is always nice). I do it because that is they type of person I am. I go out of my way to do kind things for others. Just recently I paid for the coffee of the man behind me online at Dunkin Donuts (he was shocked!). I’m always giving water to the people who come and do the landscaping in our complex and water to our delivery men. They might be little things here and there but I always make a conscious effort to do something nice each day for someone else. I think I easily filled my quota for the day today. LOL!
What have YOU done lately that was a “random act of kindness”? I would love to hear about them! Hearing great stories of kindness gives me the “warm fuzzies” and makes me smile.
