Attention K-Mart shoppers, there is a good Samaritan in your midst and it’s not the K-Mart employee who found $10,000 and returned it to its owner.
In these desperate economic times, it’s easy to become jaded and think no one else cares about their neighbors and fellow citizens. That’s not so, according to reports coming out of K-Marts all around the nation in spots as far apart as Indiana and Montana. It appears that people who are fortunate enough to have extra cash at this time of year are coming to the aid of those who don’t. The donors, including one woman who was doing her good deed in memory of her recently departed husband, are paying it forward it in a literal, not figurative, sense. They are paying all but a few dollars, or in some cases a few cents, of people’s layaways at K-Marts. By leaving just a little bit of the balance still to be paid, it ensures that K-Mart will keep the toys and clothes in layaway until the person who originally began the layaway account comes to pay the pittance left and take their goods home. It seems the Secret Santas are multiplying as the feel-good stories are starting to pop up everywhere. This is one kind of copy cat act that deserves more attention.
Once the good Samaritan makes the donation, store employees call the person holding the account and share the good news. For one woman who received the call while she was at a children’s hospital as her son received treatment, it meant there would be a Christmas for her family this year.
It’s stories like these and the recent one of the Good Samaritan whose life was saved just minutes after doing a good deed and the homeless man returning huge wads of lost cash that certainly warm my cold, cold heart. After reading stories recently about a sperm donor cheating on his wife and his own political ideology this is the kind of giving I can promote.