- Aesop
One of the simple and easy ways that my children and I
practice kindness is by returning stray grocery carts in the parking lot to the
cart collection area. For whatever
reason, in this particular lot, the carts are frequently left in the middle of
empty parking spaces, which are pretty hard to find. A cart in the way is another challenge to
parking.
Our corralling the carts started the first week of our
kindness project. It is something that
we frequently do when we are in that lot.
Depending on how much time we have, we return just one cart or we may
retrieve carts for a while.
Earlier this week, there seemed to be an unusually high
number of carts in the parking lot and we had some time, so we decided to spend
a few minutes doing it. As we were
returning the carts, a friend and one of her children were coming out of the
store with their groceries. We offered
to return their cart once they were done unloading. But before we could get to their cart, the
son returned theirs. A few minutes
later, as we were returning the last carts, we saw a box -- of beer! -- in a cart and suspected that it might belong
to our friends. I called my friend and
she drove back. "You saved the day
-- what an act of kindness!" she exclaimed as we put the box in their car. Not that she is a beer drinker, but she does
have a son home from college who was looking forward to a cold one.
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