Don't you like the feeling of doing something good for someone you don't even know. My Saturday started off like any other. I had plans to go to Walmart this morning, mainly to buy meat. I was down to 1 package of chicken breast in the freezer. That's the difference in cooking every night and eating out 3 or 4 nights a week. When you actually cook the food you buy, you run out. lol. On my way up to the store entrance, I could tell something was going on by the door, someone was selling something. I didn't think it was girlscout cookies, but I could see a table, as I approached, they saw me and about 4-5 people with fliers in hand were eyeballing me, I wasn't going to be able to just smile and walk on by. This little old man, bent over at the waist, crippled fingers and a smile as bright as the sun came to me first, he held his balance on one of the bumper poles by the door and told me they were having a food drive, and that this was a list of the items that they used on a regular basis. Giant bulk cans of peaches, applesauce, chili with no beans, the list went on and on.
I proceeded to the meat section with the flier still in hand and got what I went in for, then I looked at the list again and thought about the old guy outside. If he could spend his Saturday, standing outside, bent over with arthritis I could buy some bulk cans of food. I bought the peaches, applesauce, chili with no beans, giant can of starkist tuna, giant can of corn. You know I can't even remember who the food drive was for, but it was so worth seeing that smile again when I took the giant cans back outside and put them in the baskets for that little old man.
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