Pay It Forward: It's the Little Things...
**This post is part of the "Pay It Forward" Active Rain group, the purpose of which is to share and encourage one another to do good and spread kindness. Feel free to post a comment below telling me about your own "Pay It Forward" moment!**
This week's pay it forward moment was nothing extraordinary or life-altering, but I like to think that maybe it made someone's day a little easier.
Here in Champaign-Urbana we had some pretty nasty winds earlier this week, strong enough to cause some damage and power outages. As I came out of the grocery store and went to put my cart in the "cart return", I noticed that the other carts were strewn in every direction. Not one was lined up with the other.
Now I realize that it's someone's job to come straighten the carts and then haul them back into the store, and this someone will get paid for the work. But I've never understood why many people won't take a single second longer when putting their carts away to line them up together so the worker's job is perhaps just a touch easier. And especially when the weather is icky like it was this week.
So I took a minute or two and straightened the carts that were already there. Once I got back to my car, my hair was knotted up like a bird's nest from the wind :) But I felt satisfied knowing that the worker, whoever he or she may be, might be relieved upon discovering that at least one of the cart returns was all stacked up and ready to go.
Often it's the little things in life that matter.
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