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We were newlyweds and had to bail out of a motel one night.
The owners of the little Sattelite Motel in Joshua Tree, Calif., chatted with us as we checked in. We were out that whoe day and came back late, and found a note to call my wife's parents. I did, and we were shortly repacking nthe car as her grandfather was dying a hundred miles away in Los Angbels and we had to get there NOW. We sorted qujickly, knocked on the office door, explained we had to go and gave them the watermelon, fruit, and ice cream we could not carry back due to space restrictions, then off we roared into the darkness, barely getting back to Encino in time almost three hours later.
A few months later, we were unemployed in L.A., when in the mail came a small envelope. It was a card frmo the owners thanking us for the goodies, wishing us well in the trying time of her grandfather's passing, and giving us a credit towards our missed day and two nights at their establishment.
We never had a chance to use it, and they went out of business while we lived out of state. Every once in a while, however, we find that envelope and it's card.
posted by
majroj
on June 28, 2007 at 8:34 PM
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We had a waitress...
Buy us ice cream cones when our first was about a year and half, she thought he was so cute and he was being good that day!
posted by
food4thought
on June 14, 2007 at 8:39 PM
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Lou - That's wonderful!
Yes, that's happened a few times. When my husband and I honeymooned in Puerto Rico, the owner of one of the guesthouses complimented our welcoming dinner. And while in Austria, we ate at a Greek restaurant and the owner sent us over complimentary cognac's after dinner because it was our anniversary. It feels so nice when that happens doesn't it? Then there are other times when people have paid for things that I wished they hadn't.
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FoliageGold
on June 14, 2007 at 12:25 PM
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Lou
How cool is that?!?! Random acts of kindness are the best!
posted by
Troosha
on June 14, 2007 at 9:36 AM
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Lou
That was very nice of her!! Let me see...I had a man pay for my turnpike fees all the way through FL a few years back..That was very nice and I never met him to thank him. The lady at the toll booth just gave the wave on through and said the man had paid my toll...That was nice, but I never quite understood it except it was back when Oprah was doing her "Random Acts of Kindness" thingy...
posted by
Offy
on June 14, 2007 at 9:21 AM
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