I looked up today’s question last night before I went to bed so that I could think on it a bit. Unfortunately, nothing is springing to mind that doesn’t involve money, and that feels kinda icky to me. We’ve done the occasional thing like paying for the people in line at the drive through behind us, or at the toll booth behind us, or little surprise things like that. Nothing really important, just petty little money things.
I would say the best thing we’ve done, that also involves money, used to happen at Christmas time. The pandemic has put an end to the tradition over the last few years, but eventually we’ll do it again. We used to pick a restaurant at random, a week or two before Christmas, and go out to dinner. We would then leave the waiter/waitress a massive tip. Like a 200-300% tip, depending on the dinner bill itself. We would then dash out as quick as we could so that we’d be in the car and gone before the waiter/waitress would see what we left.
Do random Christmas gifts to hard working people count as random acts of kindness? I think so, in the true sense of Christmas, but in the actual Christmas spirit of gross consumerism? I don’t know. It works for me, I guess.
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