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Hey Nancy, let me tell you what happened Saturday.
About 7 p.m., I decided to get a pedicure. Late - as usual - I know.
I went to T.J. Nails, next to Harris Teeter on Randleman Road. A woman from my church had recommended that place to me.
Anyway, I was seated next to a woman who goes to Mt. Zion. I think her name was Candy or Candice or something like that.
Real friendly woman – and a woman who looked so much younger than she said she was. She had on braces.
They were working with her when I got there and she left shortly after they had started with me. Now, get this. When she left, she paid for my pedicure!!!!
Can you believe that?
I don't know who this woman was or what prompted her to do that, but I was so overwhelmed.
She didn't know where I worked, so I know that wasn't a factor. We didn’t even talk about our jobs. We talked about God, our churches and our feet…(lol)
This was my first time meeting her.
The manager didn't believe it when the guy who rang her up showed her the receipt. He said the woman told him not to say anything until after she left.
Well, the woman must have gone to the grocery store or something because the manager later saw her walking toward her car. The manager ran out of the salon, got the woman and asked her if she really did pay for me, too.
I was sitting in that chair in awe. The manager brought her back into the salon and I asked why, and she just said, "Be blessed." I told her thank you, and she point toward the sky and said, "No, thank him." Then she turned around and left.
She made me just want to pass on that blessing to someone else, which I did by the way.
That woman has no idea how much her deed meant to me. It wasn't the money. It was her act – her deed.
She reached her hands out to someone she didn't know.
If that's not God working through a human being, I don't know what is.
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This makes me think of the movie "Pay It Forward." But, more importantly, it made me smile today! What a good feeling she passed on with little to no effort and obviously with no intention of being thanked or recognized for her good deed.
Posted on June 21, 2005 6:35 PM
Remember the story you told me about the pedicure? Well, I was at a thrift shop this weekend and this woman finds a cute pair of shorts and a shirt for a child. She asked me what I thought of the set because she saw me shopping with my daughter. She had seen a child with short shorts and a dingy shirt and wanted to show some love to the little girl. It was $7 total. I watched her walk to the register and I went up and gave her the money. She was like, you don’t have to do that. I said you are blessing someone else, let me be a blessing to you. It felt so good! Often times we are oblivious to the plights of others. You reminded me what being a good neighbor is all about.
Posted on June 27, 2005 3:29 PM
That was nice Nancy, good for you! It's so easy to do something little for someone else that could put a smile on their face and yet, so often we don't think about it or if we do, don't act on it. I thin of this time when I first moved to DC and was still getting acclimated to the Metro and and was trying to change trains and this lady running next to me caught her heel on something and fell -- she was sprawled out on the floor and people just stepped over her and continued running for the Metro...I slowed down for a minute and then decided I needed to catch the Metro, too and took off. This made me feel bad. Somehow the lady still managed to get on the train and was in the train with me. I stood there for a minute next to her and then I couldn't stand it any more so I asked her if she was OK. She looked at me and said very nicely and somewhat gratefully, "yes", and then, looking around and into the eyes of other people on the train with us who had stepped over her when she fell, said "thank you so much for asking."
Posted on June 27, 2005 5:45 PM