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A while ago, Sharon wrote this blog about the Be Kind Revolution, which inspired me to write this blog about being kind and giving back. I want to come clean, I only finished 7 of the 12 things I set out to do, but that is not why I’m writing this blog.
No, this blog is about being awkward... while trying to be kind.
You see, I got all caught up in this being kind thing and every time I left the house, I tried to do something kind. So, one day, as I was going through the Tim Horton’s drive thru, I thought it would be kind to pay for the person behind me.
I didn’t look to see who was behind me, I didn’t ask what they had ordered, I just said I would pay for their order. It was a whopping $1.67, but that wasn’t what it was about, it was about giving someone (a total stranger) something to smile about.
So, I payed, and I pulled forward thinking I would just drive away and they would have no idea who had bought their coffee. Nope, I pulled forward and somehow got stuck in a bizarre parking lot traffic jam. Then, the truck behind me pulled up.
I couldn’t help myself, I looked in the mirror to see whose coffee I had bought. It was a young guy in a pick up truck. I suppose he was looking to see who bought his coffee because that was when our eyes met, and I smiled... and that was when things got REALLY awkward. That moment was also the moment that I realized that the young man in the truck behind me had taken my Be Kind gesture as more of an older lady buying a younger man a drink gesture, and I know the two words that were running through his head at that moment and they were: Cou-Grrrrrrrrr.
The cars in front of me where not moving and it was getting more and more difficult to avoid looking in the mirror and I thought I might just die right there in my minivan, and then there was a small opening in the traffic and I squeezed my minivan into a spot the size of a mini cooper and got the heck out of there.
So be kind... not awkward.
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